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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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Disrupted functional connectivity of the pain network in fibromyalgia.
Ignacio Cifre,Carolina Sitges,Daniel Fraiman,Miguel Ángel Muñoz,Pablo Balenzuela,Ana M. González-Roldán,M. Martínez-Jauand,Niels Birbaumer,Dante R. Chialvo,Pedro Montoya +9 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that patients with FM display a substantial imbalance of the connectivity within the pain network during rest, suggesting that chronic pain may also lead to changes in brain activity during internally generated thought processes such as occur at rest.
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Brain injury in autonomic, emotional, and cognitive regulatory areas in patients with heart failure.
TL;DR: Brain structural injury emerged in areas involved in autonomic, pain, mood, language, and cognitive function in HF patients, and may result from neural injury associated with the syndrome.
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Interoceptive accuracy scores from the heartbeat counting task are problematic: Evidence from simple bivariate correlations.
TL;DR: In a large sample of participants, it is observed that, whereas IAcc scores are meant to be theoretically agnostic to error type (i.e., over- or underestimation of heartbeats), these scores massively reflect under-reports, and is encouraged to encourage researchers using this score for studying cognitive and emotional processes to reconsider its meaning.
Stimulation of the human cortex and the experience of pain: Wilder Penfield's observations
TL;DR: This issue was reinvestigated by analysing subjective and videotaped behavioural responses to 4160 cortical stimulations using intracerebral electrodes implanted in all cortical lobes that were carried out over 12 years during the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy in 164 consecutive patients.
Meditation and the neuroscience of consciousness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the initial findings of neuroscientific research on meditation; in doing so, the essay also suggests potential avenues of further inquiry, including the use of first-person expertise in relation to the potential for research on the neural counterpart of subjective experience.
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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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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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