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How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body.
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Functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body that might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.Abstract:
As humans, we perceive feelings from our bodies that relate our state of well-being, our energy and stress levels, our mood and disposition. How do we have these feelings? What neural processes do they represent? Recent functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body. This system constitutes a representation of 'the material me', and might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.read more
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Instantaneous and causal connectivity in resting state brain networks derived from functional MRI data.
TL;DR: Findings indicate that regions whose activities are not synchronized interact via time-delayed causal influences, and segregation of different resting state networks is not clear cut but only by soft boundaries.
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Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy
TL;DR: It is pointed out that SE and similar somatic approaches offer a supplement to cognitive and exposure therapies, and that mechanisms similar to those discussed in the paper may also be involved in the benefits of meditation and other somatic practices.
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Pain and post traumatic stress disorder - review of clinical and experimental evidence.
TL;DR: An extensive body of literature substantiates the clinical coexistence of pain and PTSD in patients but the limited experimental data show inconsistent results highlighting the need for well-controlled future studies.
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Nucleus accumbens, thalamus and insula connectivity during incentive anticipation in typical adults and adolescents.
Youngsun T. Cho,Stephen J. Fromm,Amanda E. Guyer,Allison Detloff,Daniel S. Pine,Julie L. Fudge,Monique Ernst +6 more
TL;DR: This is the first study to demonstrate in humans the key role of thalamus projections onto the NAc in support of reward processing, and suggests that anticipation of gain/loss involves an 'alerting' signal (thalamus) that converges with interoceptive information (insula) to shape action selection programs in the ventral striatum.
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Interoception drives increased rational decision-making in meditators playing the ultimatum game.
TL;DR: It is shown that meditators activate a different network of brain areas compared with controls enabling them to uncouple negative emotional reactions from their behavior, highlighting the clinically and socially important possibility that sustained training in mindfulness meditation may impact distinct domains of human decision-making.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the multiplicity of the consciousness of self in the form of the stream of thought and the perception of space in the human brain, which is the basis for our work.
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