Background: The psycho-physiological changes in brain-body interaction observed in most
of meditative and relaxing practices rely on voluntary slowing down of breath frequency …

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 …

Network dynamics have been proposed as a mechanistic substrate for the information
transfer across cortical and hippocampal circuits. However, little is known about the …

Breathing is a well-described, vital and surprisingly complex behaviour, with behavioural
and physiological outputs that are easy to directly measure. Key neural elements for …

Whereas the neurophysiology of respiration has traditionally focused on automatic brain
stem processes, higher brain mechanisms underlying the cognitive aspects of breathing are …

The need to breathe links the mammalian olfactory system inextricably to the respiratory
rhythms that draw air through the nose. In rodents and other small animals, slow oscillations …

We revisit recent evidence showing that nasal respiration entrains oscillations at the same
frequency as breathing in several regions of the rodent brain. Moreover, respiration …

Brain–body interactions are thought to be essential in emotions but their physiological basis
remains poorly understood. In mice, regular 4 Hz breathing appears during freezing after …

Breathing can be heavily influenced by pain or internal emotional states, but the neural
circuitry underlying this tight coordination is unknown. Here we report that Oprm1 (μ-opioid …

Ongoing fluctuations of neuronal activity have long been considered intrinsic noise that
introduces unavoidable and unwanted variability into neuronal processing, which the brain …