Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

An increasing recognition that brain and body are dynamically coupled has enriched our
scientific understanding of mental health conditions. Peripheral signals interact centrally to …

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 …

It has been suggested that individual differences in interoception (the perception of the
body's internal state) can be divided into three distinct dimensions: interoceptive accuracy …

Interoception, the capacity to perceive internal bodily states, is thought to influence cognitive,
affective and interpersonal functioning. It is frequently assessed using the heartbeat …

Abstract The Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) has been proposed as a neurophysiological
marker of interoceptive processing. Despite its use to validate interoceptive measures and to …

Interoception is the sense of the physiological condition of the entire body. Impaired
interoception has been associated with aberrant activity of the insula in major depressive …

Anxiety is often conceptualised as the prototypical disorder of interoception (one's
perception of bodily states). Whilst theoretical models predict an association between …

Interoceptive accuracy is frequently assessed using the Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT),
requiring participants to count the number of times their heart beats. The HCT validity has …

It has recently been proposed that measures of the perception of the state of one's own body
(“interoception”) can be categorised as one of several types depending on both how an …