The role of interoception and its neural basis with relevance to drug addiction is reviewed.
Interoception consists of the receiving, processing, and integrating body-relevant signals …

Sudden death is an important but widely under-recognised consequence of stroke. Acute
stroke can disturb central autonomic control, resulting in myocardial injury …

Animal research indicates that a combination of physical activity and sensory enrichment
has the largest and the only sustaining effect on adult neuroplasticity. Dancing has been …

Whether we feel sympathy for another, listen to our heartbeat, experience pain or negotiate,
the insular cortex is thought to integrate perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and plans into one …

Obesity is a risk factor for neurodegenerative disease associated with cognitive dysfunction,
including Alzheimer's disease. Low-grade inflammation is common in obesity, but the …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with differences in sensory sensitivity and
affective response to sensory stimuli, the neural basis of which is still largely unknown. We …

A quantitative, voxel‐wise meta‐analysis was performed to investigate the cortical control of
water and saliva swallowing. Studies that were included in the meta‐analysis (1) examined …

Methods: The authors reviewed the results of insular stimulations performed in 222 patients
admitted between 1997 and 2015 for presurgical SEEG exploration of atypical temporal or …

The observation of goal-directed actions performed by another individual allows one to
understand what that individual is doing and why he/she is doing it. Important information …

Electrical stimulations of the insula performed during stereo-electro-encephalography
(SEEG) reproduce the ictal symptoms observed during the development of insular seizures …