In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health' by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Tervetuloa Tutkijoiden yöhön! 🧠 Muuttuvat aivot 🕛 26.9. 16.00-21.00 📍 Alfa, Agora, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social #TutkijoidenYö #ResearchersNight #Tiedetaivas

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

Miten äänikirjat vaikuttavat tunteisiimme? Tule mukaan aivotutkimukseen! 🧠 Juuri alkaneessa aivokuvantamistutkimuksessa hyödynnetään äänikirjojen kuuntelua ja mielikuvaharjoituksia, jotta voidaan paremmin ymmärtää, kuinka keho ja aivot toimivat yhdessä tunnekokemuksen aikana. tinyurl.com/2s24byp5

3 (!) open PhD positions at @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on brain and bodily oscillations and their role in cognition: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

📰 SUMMARY OF OUR NEW PRE-PRINT 📰 Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is a temporary slowing down of the heart during the anticipation of task-relevant events. ACD is typically calculated from the amount of increase in R-R intervals on the ECG signal, which is fair enough...

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

📣Call for applications We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...

You’re now breathing manually 🌬️ What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing? In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" doi.org/10.1371/jour... We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍 We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes. 👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc 🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

Making Sense of Sensation: A model of Interoceptive Attribution and Appraisal with Clinical applications New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social #interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁 osf.io/preprints/ps...

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

🚨 New paper out! Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠 We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework. In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access: 🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn 1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social: How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :) #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oscillatory markers of interoceptive attention: beta suppression as a neural signature of heartbeat processing. Pultsina, Parviainen, Karjalainen bioRxiv 2025.06.24.660939; doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Oscillatory markers of interoceptive attention: beta suppression as a neural signature of heartbeat processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.660939v1

Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661828v1

happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open: doi.org/10.1162/jocn... oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes.

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints *last work from Sobel's lab in Curr. Biol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Curious about how your brain’s excitability aligns with your breath, even while asleep? Check out our new preprint!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A great collaboration between @tschreiner.bsky.social 's lab and @danlikesbrains.bsky.social 's lab. (1/5)

🧠 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 🧵

Breathing strategies to influence perception: Evidence for interoceptive and exteroceptive active sensing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654033v1

Redefining respiratory sinus arrhythmia as respiratory heart rate variability: an international Expert Recommendation for terminological clarity #interoception #neuroskyence rdcu.be/elzfV

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

What happens in the brain when we breathe? 🧠 🔄 🫁 🧠 The functional state of the brain fluctuates across the respiratory cycle 🫁 Brain activity can be volitionally influenced by varying the rate, depth, and pattern of breathing Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle (new from Adriano Tort and colleagues) #neuroskyence 🧠🫁 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you miss the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025? The 🎥 recorded talks are now online at www.cbs.mpg.de/mbb2025 (via @martager.bsky.social) #MBBS2025

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

So glad to share this pub after beginning it 3 years ago! Here, we provide a narrative overview on the case for impaired #interoception in #Parkinson disease: 1) Putative mechanisms 2) Literature evidence 3) Why it's important to study in PD 4) A framework for future study tinyurl.com/2yt65vn3

Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky

1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health - @jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447

(NOW with) 🧠 Background: when going off X/Twitter, I got out of habit of promoting my articles online. I’d like to highlight two articles on the cerebellum that I published in 2024, which also provides some context to my current call. I’m excited about revealing a cerebellum-behavioural correlation.

Looking for any papers that report a significant increase in any effect (not motor) in systole compared with diastole. I think I have an exhaustive list but just checking that I have not missed any. If you know of any please let me know. Thanks #interoception #cardiac

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...

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

Työskenteletkö cp-vammaisten henkilöiden parissa? Mahtavaa - tule päivittämään ammattitaitoasi EXECP-tutkimushankkeemme tiimoilta järjestettävään seminaariin 14.3.2025 (Jyväskylä/livestream) 🧐 Maksuton tilaisuus tarjoaa uusinta tutkimustietoa ja käytännön sovelluksia. Lue lisää ja ilmoittaudu 👇

Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum. Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline is March 20th 2025. international.au.dk/about/profil...

1/3 Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with: - Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding - Models to get some first insights - Further reading boxes for more advanced topics - Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

Predicting individual traits from models of brain dynamics: In our new paper with Mark Woolrich & Diego Vidaurre in @elife.bsky.social, we combine a generative model of brain dynamics, here the Hidden Markov Model, with the Fisher kernel to predict individual traits elifesciences.org/articles/95125

PhD defense completed 🎉 I was very lucky to have @michaelgaebler.com as my honoured opponent - thank you for the inspiring discussions 🧠🫀🫁 Many thanks to my supervisors @tiinapa.bsky.social and Tuija Aro for their support and guidance throughout this journey! #PhDdefense

We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency

🔎 Miten kehon toiminnot muovaavat aivojen toimintaa? 🔎 Miten kehon ja aivojen vuorovaikutus on kytköksissä yksilöllisiin piirteisiin ja neuromoninaisuuteen? 🎩 Väitöstilaisuus 🗓 Pe 31.1.2025 12.00 📍 JYU Vanha juhlasali (S212) ➡️ www.jyu.fi/fi/uutinen/v... #tiedetaivas #väitös

Years ago, I found a trusted companion on a journey to understand how our bodily signals influence the brain and mind. Next Friday marks a major milestone in this journey, as @suvikarjalainen.bsky.social defends her thesis. Looking forward the discussion with @michaelgaebler.com as the opponent!