Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

The inadequacy of a categorial approach to mental health diagnosis is now well-recognised,
with many authors, diagnostic manuals and funding bodies advocating a dimensional, trans …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Mindfulness is often used as an umbrella term to characterize a large number of practices,
processes, and characteristics. Critics argue that this broad definition has led to …

The role of peripheral physiology in the experience of emotion has been debated since the
19th century following the seminal proposal by William James that somatic responses to …

Alexithymia is a sub-clinical construct, traditionally characterized by difficulties identifying
and describing one's own emotions. Despite the clear need for interoception (interpreting …

Interoception refers to the perception of the physiological condition of the body, including
hunger, temperature, and heart rate. There is a growing appreciation that interoception is …

Conscious interoception, the perception of internal bodily states, is thought to contribute to
fundamental human abilities (eg, decision-making and emotional regulation). One of its most …

Alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by altered emotional awareness which
has been gaining diagnostic prevalence in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders, with …

It has been proposed that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with difficulties
perceiving the internal state of one's body (ie, impaired interoception), causing the socio …