leahbanellis.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Lundbeck Postdoc Fellow at Yale (USA), KU & AU (Denmark). Interested in brain-body interactions, interoception, consciousness, & mental health
👤 Joined on 28 August 2023
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@leahbanellis.bsky.socialBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Show PostWe therefore outline a broader methodological agenda, including physiological perturbation and recovery, ecological sampling, wearable technology, organ-specific measures and approaches that can examine how people describe and interpret their bodily experiences.
Show PostThis also raises questions about how we measure interoception. Resting-state accuracy tasks can tell us something about detecting a particular bodily signal. But they may tell us much less about how people interpret bodily changes in everyday life.
Show PostWe introduce Interoceptive Self-Appraisal (ISA) to describe this higher-order process: how people evaluate the meaning of bodily signals in relation to themselves and their current context.
Show PostConsider an increased heart rate. During exercise, it may signal effort. At a concert, excitement. In a threatening situation, danger. The bodily signal is not enough to explain the experience.
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