Researchers are decoding how signals move between body and brain, with implications for how we understand and treat ...

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, “Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

Table 1 Summary of this study’s hypotheses, predictions or questions, and results. Figure 1: We identified key visceromotor cortical regions (in red) that provide cortical control of the body’s ...

Interoception, the body’s ability to sense its internal state accurately and promptly facilitated by the vagus nerve, is crucial for the functioning of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, ...

There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression If you’re sitting in a safe and ...

When the question is “how are you feeling on the inside?,” it’s our vagus nerve that offers the answer. But how does the body’s longest cranial nerve, running from brain to large intestine, encodes ...