Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

The Brown University cognitive neuroscientist studies how the brain and body interact, with the goal of translating insights ...

In humans, it has been shown that impaired interoception promotes mental health conditions such as anxiety and mood disorders. Interoception is monitored by specialized visceral receptors in different ...

Background: Self-care can improve several outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease, but its practice may be hindered by some factors, including deficits in interoceptive abilities (i.e., ...

The following is a summary of “Association Between Interoceptive Accuracy and Pain Perception: Insights From Trained Musicians and Athletes,” published in the April 2025 issue of European Journal of ...

This study presents important findings on the early development of cardiac and respiratory interoceptive sensitivity based on an investigation of infants aged 3, 9 and 18 months and on extensive ...

Background: Aberrant interoceptive processing has been hypothesized to contribute to the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder, although findings have been inconsistent. Here, we ...

Abstract: Measuring interoception (‘perceiving internal bodily states’) has diagnostic and wellbeing implications. Since heartbeats are distinct and frequent, various methods aim at measuring cardiac ...

A recent review article in Bone Research examines the role of skeletal interoception in bone health and evaluates biomaterials designed to interact with this system to improve bone regeneration. The ...

Rubber hand illusion (RHI) refers to the illusory sense of body ownership of a fake hand, which is induced by synchronous visuotactile stimulation to the real and fake hands. A negative correlation ...