Exciting new work by @merylneuro.bsky.social et al unpacking how sensory info from the heart impacts the processing of emotions in the brain, focused on one of the most mysterious and fascinating brain regions, Insula. #GoTeamInsula www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint! Follow the thread to find out about the exciting work of an outstanding postdoc in my lab @merylneuro.bsky.social !!!

Meryl Malezieux@merylneuro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.