ArticleNeuron2021
Interoception of breathing and its relationship with anxiety.
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- Disrupted profiles of interoception and mental health in youths: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of brief respiratory, embodiment, cognitive, and mindfulness interventions to reduce state anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- From Lung to Brain: Respiration Modulates Neural and Mental Activity.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Pooled it
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- Liraglutide restores impaired associative learning in individuals with obesity.Nature metabolism · 2023Trial
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- The Impact of Different Severities of Anxiety on Decision-Making.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Insular routing to orbitofrontal cortex enables breathing awareness.Science advances · 2026Article
- The Developmental Role of Atypical Interoception in Youth Anxiety and Eating Disorders.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Review
- When attention falters: Brain, breathing, and behavioral signals of lapses in interoceptive attention.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Estimating Interoceptive Sensitivity from Physiological Breathing Parameters.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2026Article
- Human forebrain neural synchronization and entrainment to breathing during wakefulness, sleep, and external mechanical ventilation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Age Differences in the Relationship Between Interoception and Emotional Processing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Psychological intervention for anxiety in patients undergoing colonoscopy: a randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Prefrontal dysregulation of interoceptive and emotional processing in episodic migraine: a task-based fMRI study.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Article
- Interplay between cognitive conditions and individual traits in voluntary apnea.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Integrated Pulmonary Severity Score (IPSS) for COPD: A Psycho-Respiratory Risk Index Supported by Explainable Machine Learning.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Network Structure of Dyspnea-Related Fear in Older Adults with Acute Exacerbation of COPD: A Biopsychosocial Network Model.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026Article
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Abstract
Interoception, the perception of internal bodily states, is thought to be inextricably linked to affective qualities such as anxiety. Although interoception spans sensory to metacognitive processing, it is not clear whether anxiety is differentially related to these processing levels. Here we investigated this question in the domain of breathing, using computational modeling and high-field (7 T) fMRI to assess brain activity relating to dynamic changes in inspiratory resistance of varying predictability. Notably, the anterior insula was associated with both breathing-related prediction certainty and prediction errors, suggesting an important role in representing and updating models of the body. Individuals with low versus moderate anxiety traits showed differential anterior insula activity for prediction certainty. Multi-modal analyses of data from fMRI, computational assessments of breathing-related metacognition, and questionnaires demonstrated that anxiety-interoception links span all levels from perceptual sensitivity to metacognition, with strong effects seen at higher levels of interoceptive processes.
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