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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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Psychological processing in chronic pain: a neural systems approach.
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The Role of the Insula in Schizophrenia
TL;DR: The normal function of the insula is described and pathology of this region in schizophrenia is examined, suggesting that insula dysfunction may contribute to hallucinations, a cardinal feature of schizophrenia.
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An active inference theory of allostasis and interoception in depression
TL;DR: It is speculated that depression is a disorder of allostasis, whose myriad symptoms result from a ‘locked in’ brain that is relatively insensitive to its sensory context, and a biologically plausible unified theory of the mind is proposed.
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A structural neural deficit in adolescents with conduct disorder and its association with lack of empathy.
Philipp Sterzer,Philipp Sterzer,Christina Stadler,Fritz Poustka,Andreas Kleinschmidt,Andreas Kleinschmidt,Andreas Kleinschmidt +6 more
TL;DR: Novel findings point at a joint neuroanatomical substrate underpinning aggressive behaviour and impaired capacity of empathy and suggest a critical role for the anterior insula in regulating social behaviour.
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Reduced functional connectivity within and between ‘social’ resting state networks in Autism Spectrum Conditions
TL;DR: Significant reduced functional connectivity within and between resting state networks incorporating ‘social’ brain regions may result in difficulties in communication and integration of information across these networks, which could contribute to the impaired processing of social signals in ASC.
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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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