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 …

Highlights•Internal bodily signals impact behaviour and emotions.•Interoception is
dissociable along objective, subjective and metacognitive psychological dimensions.• …

Large-scale intrinsic brain systems have been identified for exteroceptive senses (such as
sight, hearing and touch). We introduce an analogous system for representing sensations …

Emotions and affective feelings are influenced by one's internal state of bodily arousal via
interoception. Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are associated with difficulties in …

Background: Interoception and heart rate variability have been found to predict outcomes of
mental health and well-being. However, these have usually been investigated …

It is difficult to collect objective evidence of interoception. Unlike exteroception, the effective
stimuli for interoception are often unknown, and even when identifiable, they are difficult to …

Interoception refers to the sensing of the internal state of one's body. Interoception is distinct
from the processing of sensory information concerning external (non-self) stimuli (eg vision …

Interoception, the perception of internal bodily states, is thought to be inextricably linked to
affective qualities such as anxiety. Although interoception spans sensory to metacognitive …

Recent research has identified individual differences in interoceptive sensitivity as a key
source of variation in action, cognition, and emotion. This research has relied heavily on a …

The autonomic nervous system regulates all aspects of normal cardiac function, and is
recognized to play a critical role in the pathophysiology of many cardiovascular diseases. As …