Sensing internal bodily signals, or interoception, is fundamental to maintain life. However,
interoception should not be viewed as an isolated domain, as it interacts with exteroception …

Background: The psycho-physiological changes in brain-body interaction observed in most
of meditative and relaxing practices rely on voluntary slowing down of breath frequency …

Network dynamics have been proposed as a mechanistic substrate for the information
transfer across cortical and hippocampal circuits. However, little is known about the …

Respiration is a brain function on which our lives essentially depend. Control of respiration
ensures that the frequency and depth of breathing adapt continuously to metabolic needs. In …

We revisit recent evidence showing that nasal respiration entrains oscillations at the same
frequency as breathing in several regions of the rodent brain. Moreover, respiration …

Brain–body interactions are thought to be essential in emotions but their physiological basis
remains poorly understood. In mice, regular 4 Hz breathing appears during freezing after …

The need to breathe links the mammalian olfactory system inextricably to the respiratory
rhythms that draw air through the nose. In rodents and other small animals, slow oscillations …

Recent studies from the field of interoception have highlighted the link between bodily and
neural rhythms during action, perception, and cognition. The mechanisms underlying …

Ongoing fluctuations of neuronal activity have long been considered intrinsic noise that
introduces unavoidable and unwanted variability into neuronal processing, which the brain …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) integrates information from cortical and sub-cortical
areas and contributes to the planning and initiation of behaviour. A potential mechanism for …