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 …

Several disciplines have investigated the interconnected empathic abilities behind the
proverb “to walk a mile in someone else's shoes” to determine how the presence, and …

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 …

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 …

Interoception refers to the sensing of internal bodily changes. Interoception interacts with
cognition and emotion, making measurement of individual differences in interoceptive ability …

Is the self already relational in its very bodily foundations? The question of whether our
mental life is initially and primarily shaped by embodied dimensions of the individual or by …

By grounding the self in the body, experimental psychology has taken the body as the
starting point for a science of the self. One fundamental dimension of the bodily self is the …

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 …