Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we're more alert, we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...

Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function — a hidden “sixth sense” called interoception. Now, Nobel laureate Ardem ...

Every human body hums with quiet communication. Beneath every heartbeat, breath, and immune signal lies a hidden conversation between the brain and internal organs. This constant exchange keeps us ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

A groundbreaking project at Scripps Research and the Allen Institute aims to chart the human body’s “hidden sixth sense” — interoception, the process by which the nervous system monitors internal ...

If you’ve ever said, “He doesn’t even know when he has to go to the bathroom!” or “She’s melting down and can’t tell me why,” then it’s time to talk about interoception. Yep—interoception is the “8th ...

Background Interoception describes the predictive representation and control of internal bodily states. We compared dimensions of interoception across three groups: functional seizures (FS), epileptic ...

There is a quiet language spoken inside us, a private vocabulary of heartbeats, breath, butterflies in the stomach, and the warmth of joy. Most people know this language instinctively. But for many ...