Clinical research on the beneficial effects induced by slow-paced breathing has been
increasingly extended in the past twenty years. Improvements in cardiovascular functioning …

Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent health problems in our modern world, with millions
of people debilitated by conditions such as back pain, headache and arthritis. To address …

Feelings are mental experiences of body states. They signify physiological need (for
example, hunger), tissue injury (for example, pain), optimal function (for example, well …

Cognitive impairment is commonly associated with the pain experience. This impairment
represents a major obstacle to daily activities and rehabilitation, especially in the chronic …

The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviours,
from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision …

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 …

Our ability to have an experience of another's pain is characteristic of empathy. Using
functional imaging, we assessed brain activity while volunteers experienced a painful …

Converging evidence indicates that primates have a distinct cortical image of homeostatic
afferent activity that reflects all aspects of the physiological condition of all tissues of the …

CONTEXT: The perception of pain due to an acute injury or in clinical pain states undergoes
substantial processing at supraspinal levels. Supraspinal, brain mechanisms are …

Despite much research on the function of the insular cortex, few studies have investigated
functional subdivisions of the insula in humans. The present study used resting-state …