How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]

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...

Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information

Happy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de

1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought

This takes care of the usual autocorrelation issues in the surrogates and computes cluster mass based on complex representations in the polar plane so we can reliably control error rates in phase-related analyses. Putting together a quick tutorial paper plus open GitHub repo right now, more soon!

Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.

Stats on #bodybrain #neuroskyence data can become non-trivial pretty quickly: Anything beyond t-tests on 'systole vs diastole' or 'insp vs exp' will include some form of phase binning, so we need adequate surrogates for robust permutation stats. Plus, these are not available for circular data.

Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679456v1

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms www.psypost.org/scientists-d... Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅: x.com/OwenGregoria...

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

'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...

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Finally, we'll have the Brain-Body States Symposium on Friday morning, featuring @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov. Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.

On Wednesday, non-Bluesky PhD student Teresa Berther will share her poster on gut-brain interactions.

On Tuesday, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social will present her poster on respiration and E:I balance in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Brain-body #neuroskyence conferences continue with #ICON2025 this week! Having just arrived from Adriatica Summer School in Pescara, the B³ Lab @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social will share their latest work on respiratory and gastric modulation of the brain in health and disease.

🚀 Excited to share our lab’s contributions at #ICON2025 in Porto! Catch talks & posters from @aprilzhao.bsky.social @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social @fabian31415.bsky.social @estebanbt.bsky.social

📢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.

Mit diesem offenen Abschlusspanel zur Frage 'Was hätte ich gerne während meiner Promotion schon gewusst?' endet die Adriatica Summer School 2025 in Pescara. Das gibt mir die Gelegenheit, die Speaker (v.l.n.r) für diejenigen unter euch vorzustellen, die fernab dieses Profils weiterlesen wollen:

Ihr Lieben, meine Woche hier geht zuende, und da morgen ein langer Reisetag ist, verabschiede ich mich schon mal von euch. Es geht morgen von Pescara nach Porto, wo am Montag die nächste Konferenz startet - die ICON 2025 ist viele Nummern größer als die beschauliche Summer School der letzten Woche.

Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀 I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️ 👉 Share it widely with curious young minds Yay for #scicomm ✨

Was passiert, wenn die kontinuierliche Dynamik von Erregung und Hemmung im Gehirn außer Balance gerät? Fokale Epilepsie ist eine neurologische Erkrankung, bei der wir im EEG und MEG eine erhöhte Erregbarkeit des Kortex beobachten - so feuern (zu) viele Neurone zum gleichen Zeitpunkt.

Incredibly impressed with the calibre of research by Ye Ella Tian showing the importance of multi-organ bodily health including immunometabolics (at Adriatica Summer School 🏖️) #teamlab #mambolab #psychologywellbeing_ch #fraferri_78 #erasmus_uda

Bisher haben wir uns angeschaut, dass Atmung über verschiedene Mechanismen an Hirnaktivität gekoppelt ist und insbesondere rhythmischer Aktivität (Oszillationen) verschiedene Funktionalitäten zugeschrieben werden. Hier ist ein Aspekt für mein Lab besonders interessant: Kortikale Erregbarkeit.

Wie aber werden jetzt Oszillationen vom Atemrhythmus beeinflusst? Ein Mechanismus, der vor allem aus der Tierliteratur hergeleitet ist, ist in dieser schematischen Abbildung dargestellt: Der Atemrhythmus selbst entsteht im Hirnstamm, in einem Kernbereich namens 'präBötzinger-Komplex' (pBC).

In this @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Spotlight, I describe how a recent paper by @leahbanellis.bsky.social, @brainandstomach.bsky.social, et al. opens new avenues in interoception research, including those focussed on the subjective interpretation of internal signals: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Tag 2 der Summer School zum Thema 'Körper und Gehirn' - direkt nach dem Frühstück bin ich mit meiner Vorlesung dran, dazu dann inhaltlich später mehr; auch zum Thema 'Atmung und Epilepsie' melde ich mich noch, weil gestern eine interessierte Frage kam. Vorher aber die Frage: Was sind Oszillationen?

Fangen wir mal mit den Menschen hinter der Forschung an: Neben Studierenden, die häufig nur für kurze Zeit im Lab angebunden sind, gehören zwei Doktorandinnen dauerhaft zum Team - ohne sie würde gar nichts laufen.

Guten Morgen aus Pescara! Ich bin Daniel (@danlikesbrains.bsky.social) und Hirnforscher an der Uni Münster. Meinen regulären Arbeitsplatz habe ich diese Woche eingetauscht, um euch auf die Adriatica Summer School mitzunehmen - hier liegt der Schwerpunkt auf 'Body-Brain Neuroscience'. [...]

Excited to be taking over the @realscientists.de account for this week - nice chance to post from the road (German only, sorry) about brain-body stuff, #neuroskyence in general, and the fantastic people at Adriatica Summer School in Pescara organized by @teamlabuda.bsky.social #scicomm

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share a new preprint in which @paulbuerkner.com and I introduce a novel model-based approach for precisely estimating the onset and offset of M/EEG effects! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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 👇

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:

Sponsoring the #IBB retreat was the best 3rd birthday present @virgobit.bsky.social could have imagined! 🎂 Virgobit was born at the IBB institute in Münster three years ago. It means so much to be part of the IBB retreat, celebrating our journey and the strong partnerships we've built.

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... 🧵 👇

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

I am ridiculously excited about this! We made the cover!! (online-only... but still 😂). Love the philosophical twist to this Editorial at Nature Mental Health featuring our research.

🧠 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!

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e

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!

📢 Last Week to Apply! Registration for the Adriatica Summer School 2025 closes July 31st. ⏳ Time is running out. Learn more and apply here: www.dnisc.unich.it/pagina-adria... #Adriatica2025 #SummerSchool #BrainBodyInteraction #Neuroscience #Wellbeing #Interoception #NetworkPhysiology

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

When one race is not enough: a relay model explains multisensory response times https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664306v1

🚨 Deadline extended! You now have until July 31 to apply for Adriatica Summer School 2025! Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity. Apply before it’s too late! Tap the link below for all the details 👇🏼 www.dnisc.unich.it/pagina-adria... #AdriaticaSummerSchool #Wellbeing #BrainBodyConnection