Sensing internal bodily signals, or interoception, is fundamental to maintain life. However,
interoception should not be viewed as an isolated domain, as it interacts with exteroception …

Linchpin to the entire area of psychophysiological research and discussion of the vagus is
the respiratory and cardiovascular phenomenon known as respiratory sinus arrhythmia …

The coordination of swallowing with breathing, in particular inspiration, is essential for
homeostasis in most organisms. While much has been learned about the neuronal network …

Respiration paces brain oscillations and the firing of individual neurons, revealing a
profound impact of rhythmic breathing on brain activity. Intriguingly, respiration-driven …

Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It
generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory …

Rapid eye movement sleep (REM) is believed to have a binary temporal structure with
“phasic” and “tonic" microstates, characterized by motoric activity versus quiescence …

Here we use immunohistochemistry to examine the expression of Piezo2 in neurons of the
mouse dorsal root ganglia and brain. Whereas Piezo2 is expressed in the large majority (≥ …

Nasal respiration influences brain dynamics by phase-entraining neural oscillations at the
same frequency as the breathing rate and by phase-modulating the activity of faster gamma …

The beneficial effect of sleep on memory consolidation relies on the precise interplay of slow
oscillations and spindles. However, whether these rhythms are orchestrated by an …

Despite major anatomical differences with other mammalian sensory systems, olfaction
shares with those systems a modulation by sleep/wake states. Sleep modulates odor …