Opinion piece from me on brain-computer interfaces 🤖 🦿🦾, out now in Nature Reviews Psychology: Bodily self-consciousness supports motor imagery doi.org/10.1038/s441... read-only link here: rdcu.be/eXIhb

This podcast commented about our recent paper on the vagal effects over the heartbeat strength, published in Communications Biology: heart-rate-variability-podcast.castos.com/episodes/thi...

Since @pnas.org didn't give us reasonable feedback, I want to share with my peers that we recently received comments from an AI-based reviewer (and the only negative one). While many of us use AI to correct readability, this was clearly not the case.

Out now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...

More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona! I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona! We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.

Next week is the world congress of the physiological societies IUPS in Frankfurt 🇩🇪. We have a symposium on the Heart-Brain Axis and also a poster 🫀 🧠. Please get in touch if interested in chatting about science www.eventclass.it/iups2025/sci...

I recently discovered the series Pantheon. The plot around the mind and machines is really cool 🤖

I receive several requests of collaboration. Please don't take it personal if I decline your invitation. I'm just trying to keep coherence on my outputs, but I'm also being extra cautious, since a recent collaboration where I was kicked out without clear reason at the moment of manuscript writing.

[Highlight of the Month] Hermann et al. Brain-heart interactions are associated with mortality and acute encephalopathy in ICU patients with severe COVID-19. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;175:2110745. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Diego Candia-Rivera and Mario Chavez (@institutducerveau.bsky.social) present preliminary evidence for bilateral interactions in fetal–maternal #cardiac dynamics! 📜 buff.ly/rMSj9NU

The heartbeat evoked potential correlates with fluctuations in blood pressure: journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

More indexed conference proceedings. Every time I see people failing at demonstrating Klimesch brain-body frequency architecture or cardiac-phase stuff is in conferences.

yup that's me

Discussing our results on brain-heart interactions during motor imagery in brain-computer interfaces, at @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social in lovely Utrecht 🇳🇱

Rubber hand illusion in rodents. Nice! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Many thanks to the Journal of Physiology for trusting my expertise in neuroscience and cardiovascular physiology. Looking forward to starting this exciting role! 🧠 🫀🫁

🧠 NEW REVIEW "Interoceptive Rhythms & Perceptual Experience Mechanisms, Contexts & Strategies for Real-World Research" How heart, lungs & gut shape what we see, feel & do—& how to study it in everyday life. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ex7chdr #NeuroSky #Interoception #Perception 👇 Thread 🧵

Ah ha! Many consciousness studies might just not be valid, or at least exaggerated. Who would have thought that about this very healthy, pluralist and friendly field of research

Just published our study on brain-heart interactions and COVID-19. We found that brain-heart interactions at the ICU onset indexes mortality risk and acute encephalopathy duration. We also found that maladaptive dynamics are associated with acute cognitive impairment 👾

Just published our study on brain-heart interactions and COVID-19. We found that brain-heart interactions at the ICU onset indexes mortality risk and acute encephalopathy duration. We also found that maladaptive dynamics are associated with acute cognitive impairment 👾

Saw this before as a preprint... We already knew that when we inhale, the whole brain (and body) "activates". So, I don't really get this "discovery". Probably because I'm not a fmri person. Maybe some of my interoception peeps can illuminate me? 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bravo! Marie Constance Corsi from our team received the BCI Society Early Career Award 👏 Very well deserved @mconstancecorsi.bsky.social

Saw this before as a preprint... We already knew that when we inhale, the whole brain (and body) "activates". So, I don't really get this "discovery". Probably because I'm not a fmri person. Maybe some of my interoception peeps can illuminate me? 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have 6-month internship options in Paris for Master (french M2) students from neural/biomedical eng or health informatics programs. Starting on September 2025. Topics on signal processing and inter-organ communication (heart-brain, heart-gut, gut-brain). Please get in touch if interested.

🧠✨ How does the brain’s wiring and function shape our state of consciousness—from deep sleep to psychedelics? We're recruiting a PhD student to explore structure-function dynamics using whole-brain modeling, fMRI, and HPC at INRIA🇫🇷 Apply now 👉 adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

courtship in Drosophila is shaped by brain-heart interactions

Insights about implantable technology to advance on measurement and physiological causality in brain-visceral crosstalk doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Very cool. Higher order brain regions have a distinctive metabolic profile to optimize cellular respiration doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Please watch. Although it disturbs me a little bit the tone suggesting that harassment in academia is associated with top institutions. It happens everywhere, and it is normalized everywhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

Gentle, slow stroke touch significantly moves the heart by lowering rate and increasing rhythmicity. This effect is much stronger when someone else touches us, compared to self-touch. Out now in IEEE Trans Affective Comp @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social, @paulasalamone.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/TAFF...

Gentle, slow stroke touch significantly moves the heart by lowering rate and increasing rhythmicity. This effect is much stronger when someone else touches us, compared to self-touch. Out now in IEEE Trans Affective Comp @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social, @paulasalamone.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/TAFF...

Almost no papers using the heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) report cardiovascular features, like blood pressure or stroke volume. When done, clear correlations appear. Another one here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bb... If not properly processed or controlled, HEPs are not measures of brain-heart interaction

Is there a fetus-mother communication through their hearts? Our study in @expphysiol.bsky.social shows delayed, co-varying patterns in heart rate and rhythm, suggesting bilateral interactions. This dynamic intensified during labor, indicating ongoing co-regulatory mechanisms: doi.org/10.1113/EP09...

Is there a fetus-mother communication through their hearts? Our study in @expphysiol.bsky.social shows delayed, co-varying patterns in heart rate and rhythm, suggesting bilateral interactions. This dynamic intensified during labor, indicating ongoing co-regulatory mechanisms: doi.org/10.1113/EP09...

A small step forward in our research on brain-heart interactions in rodents! Our latest paper, now published in The Journal of Physiology, validates our method for a time-resolved depiction of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic indices in rats. @jphysiol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

the journal Comprehensive Physiology (American Physiological Society/Wiley) is now rebranded to focus on inter-organ crosstalk. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2040...

🚨Check out our new preprint on Bodily Self-dysfunction in #Psychosis, where we look at the Neural and Spinal Response to #Self-produced Sensations using #Touch and #Interoception @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social #BRNet 🚨 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1/🧵

Our methodological review on Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions 🧠🫀 is now available as early access in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering @embs.org. with Luca Faes, @fdevicofallani.bsky.social and Mario Chavez @neurodynamicslab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/RBME...

Our methodological review on Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions 🧠🫀 is now available as early access in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering @embs.org. with Luca Faes, @fdevicofallani.bsky.social and Mario Chavez @neurodynamicslab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/RBME...

We have a new paper in @commsbio.bsky.social, with @fdevicofallani.bsky.social, @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social, @paulasalamone.bsky.social We show that cardiac rhythmicity patterns covary with the formation of brain networks allowing self-other touch distinction 🫳 🫀 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

The validation of our method to gather a time-resolved estimation of cardiac rhythms is now online in @royalsocietypublishing.org Our method provides a robust estimation of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic dynamics, allowing covarying pattern analyses doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

We have a new paper in @commsbio.bsky.social, with @fdevicofallani.bsky.social, @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social, @paulasalamone.bsky.social We show that cardiac rhythmicity patterns covary with the formation of brain networks allowing self-other touch distinction 🫳 🫀 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

A little hallmark in my career, I have my first paper with >100 citations: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We showed that changes in cardiac rhythmicity initiate emotion processing, and that fluctuations in vagal tone shape the changes in brain oscillations, defining subjective levels of arousal 🧠🫀

#LocationLocationLocation! Baghdadi, Kim &co show @science.org that intestinal stem cells #ISCs located at the bottom of the crypts sense a more rigid environment & activate PIEZO to tune their proliferation/differentiation maintaining gut physiology! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Proceedings of the recent Conf. from the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations are now online. We have two short papers showing how the time-resolved analysis of cardiac activity can track the changes in obstructive sleep apnea and in freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease

Current Research in Neurobiology Brain-heart interactions in the neurobiology of consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From my recent presentation in Body Brain Waves in Salerno, I gave a brief overview about brain-heart interaction through the near-death, comatose and post-comatose periods. These interactions serve to assess severity, mortality and presence of consciousness 🧠🫀 🧠📈 youtu.be/W8FJZ03szo8

Back in 2021, we hypothesized brain-heart interactions could signal mental processing, potentially detecting consciousness in unresponsive patients. And we succeeded: www.jneurosci.org/content/41/2... Then Science and SfN gave us a shout-out for it: tinyurl.com/ytr67c5a www.jneurosci.org/spotlight