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Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap.

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Khalsa, SS; Adolphs, R; Cameron, OG; Critchley, HD; Davenport, PW; Feinstein, JS; Feusner, JD; Garfinkel, SN; Lane, RD; Mehling, WE; Meuret, AE ...
Published in: Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
June 2018

Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to the maintenance of homeostatic functioning, body regulation, and survival. Dysfunction of interoception is increasingly recognized as an important component of different mental health conditions, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, addictive disorders, and somatic symptom disorders. However, a number of conceptual and methodological challenges have made it difficult for interoceptive constructs to be broadly applied in mental health research and treatment settings. In November 2016, the Laureate Institute for Brain Research organized the first Interoception Summit, a gathering of interoception experts from around the world, with the goal of accelerating progress in understanding the role of interoception in mental health. The discussions at the meeting were organized around four themes: interoceptive assessment, interoceptive integration, interoceptive psychopathology, and the generation of a roadmap that could serve as a guide for future endeavors. This review article presents an overview of the emerging consensus generated by the meeting.

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Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging

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2451-9030

Publication Date

June 2018

Volume

3

Issue

6

Start / End Page

501 / 513

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Mental Health
  • Interoception
  • Humans
  • Emotions
  • Cognition
  • Brain
  • Awareness
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
 

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Khalsa, S. S., Adolphs, R., Cameron, O. G., Critchley, H. D., Davenport, P. W., Feinstein, J. S., … Interoception Summit 2016 participants, . (2018). Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging, 3(6), 501–513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.12.004
Khalsa, Sahib S., Ralph Adolphs, Oliver G. Cameron, Hugo D. Critchley, Paul W. Davenport, Justin S. Feinstein, Jamie D. Feusner, et al. “Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap.Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 3, no. 6 (June 2018): 501–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.12.004.
Khalsa SS, Adolphs R, Cameron OG, Critchley HD, Davenport PW, Feinstein JS, et al. Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2018 Jun;3(6):501–13.
Khalsa, Sahib S., et al. “Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap.Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging, vol. 3, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 501–13. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.12.004.
Khalsa SS, Adolphs R, Cameron OG, Critchley HD, Davenport PW, Feinstein JS, Feusner JD, Garfinkel SN, Lane RD, Mehling WE, Meuret AE, Nemeroff CB, Oppenheimer S, Petzschner FH, Pollatos O, Rhudy JL, Schramm LP, Simmons WK, Stein MB, Stephan KE, Van den Bergh O, Van Diest I, von Leupoldt A, Paulus MP, Interoception Summit 2016 participants. Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2018 Jun;3(6):501–513.

Published In

Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging

DOI

EISSN

2451-9030

Publication Date

June 2018

Volume

3

Issue

6

Start / End Page

501 / 513

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Mental Health
  • Interoception
  • Humans
  • Emotions
  • Cognition
  • Brain
  • Awareness
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences