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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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Decoding the Role of the Insula in Human Cognition: Functional Parcellation and Large-Scale Reverse Inference
TL;DR: The present study suggests that the insula is instrumental in integrating disparate functional systems involved in processing affect, sensory-motor processing, and general cognition and is well suited to provide an interface between feelings, cognition, and action.
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The hidden island of addiction: the insula.
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TL;DR: This work proposes a model in which the processing of the interoceptive effects of drug use by the insula contributes to conscious drug urges and to decision-making processes that precipitate relapse.
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Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business
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TL;DR: Although neuroimaging is unlikely to be cheaper than other tools in the near future, there is growing evidence that it may provide hidden information about the consumer experience.
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Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis.
TL;DR: A whole-brain based quantitative meta-analysis of recent fMRI studies of empathy found that the dACC-aMCC-SMA and bilateral anterior insula can be considered as forming a core network in empathy, and that cognitive-evaluative and affective-perceptual empathy can be distinguished at the level of regional activation.
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The tempted brain eats: Pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders
TL;DR: This work assesses brain mechanisms known to generate "liking" and "wanting" for foods and evaluates their interaction with regulatory mechanisms of hunger and satiety, relevant to clinical issues.
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