Neural hypersensitivity to pleasant touch in women remitted from anorexia nervosa. [PDF]
Interoception, or the sensing and integration of bodily state signals, has been implicated in anorexia nervosa (AN), given that the hallmark symptoms involve food restriction and body image disturbance. Here we focus on brain response to the anticipation
Bailer, Ursula +6 more
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Although research indicates that self-reported interoception is associated with deficits in identifying and describing emotional experience, and externally oriented thinking styles (alexithymia), this relationship appears moderated by how interoception ...
Kristen Van Bael +5 more
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Panic Anxiety in Humans with Bilateral Amygdala Lesions: Pharmacological Induction via Cardiorespiratory Interoceptive Pathways [PDF]
We previously demonstrated that carbon dioxide inhalation could induce panic anxiety in a group of rare lesion patients with focal bilateral amygdala damage.
Adolphs, Rene +5 more
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A Blueprint for the Hard Problem of Consciousness [PDF]
A Blueprint for the Hard Problem of Consciousness addresses the fundamental mechanism that allows physical events to transcend into subjective experiences, termed the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Consciousness is made available as
Negro, Paulo J.
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Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition [PDF]
Background: Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions.
Canales Johnson, Andres +9 more
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Does the Coronavirus Epidemic Take Advantage of Human Optimism Bias?
Hugo Bottemanne +5 more
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People with higher interoceptive sensitivity are more altruistic, but improving interoception does not increase altruism [PDF]
People consistently show preferences and behaviors that benefit others at a cost to themselves, a phenomenon termed altruism. We investigated if perception of one’s body signals – interoception - may be underlying such behaviors.
A Mancini +29 more
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Interactions between cardiac activity and conscious somatosensory perception
Fluctuations in the heart's activity can modulate the access of external stimuli to consciousness. The link between perceptual awareness and cardiac signals has been investigated mainly in the visual and auditory domain. Here, we investigated whether the
Al, E. +5 more
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The Actions and Feelings Questionnaire in Autism and Typically Developed Adults [PDF]
Open access via Springer Compact Agreement We are grateful to Simon Baron-Cohen and Paula Smith of the Cambridge Autism Centre for the use of the ARC database in distributing the questionnaire, to all participants for completing it, to Eilidh Farquar for
Cameron, Isobel M, Williams, Justin H G
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Autism, oxytocin and interoception
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by profound social and verbal communication deficits, stereotypical motor behaviors, restricted interests, and cognitive abnormalities. Autism affects approximately 1% of children in developing countries. Given this prevalence, identifying risk factors and therapeutic interventions are pressing
Quattrocki, E, Friston, K
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