Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
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California Institute of Technology
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University of Sussex
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University College London
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Favaloro University
Description
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, generating a continuous mapping of the organism’s internal state across conscious and unconscious levels. It plays a fundamental role in reflexes, urges, affective states, motivational drives, adaptive regulation, and higher-order cognitive and emotional experiences, thereby supporting homeostasis, body regulation, and survival.
Growing evidence indicates that interoceptive dysfunction is a key component of multiple mental health conditions, including anxiety, mood, eating, addictive, and somatic symptom disorders. Despite its theoretical relevance, conceptual ambiguities and methodological limitations have hindered the systematic integration of interoceptive constructs into psychiatric research and clinical practice.
In response to these challenges, the Laureate Institute for Brain Research convened the first Interoception Summit in November 2016, bringing together international experts to accelerate progress in the field. Discussions were structured around four central themes: (1) interoceptive assessment, (2) interoceptive integration, (3) interoceptive psychopathology, and (4) the development of a research roadmap to guide future scientific and clinical advances. This review article synthesizes the emerging consensus generated at the meeting and outlines strategic directions to consolidate interoception as a central construct in mental health research.
Notes (English)
Full list: Sahib S. Khalsa; Ralph Adolphs; Oliver G. Cameron; Hugo D. Critchley; Paul W. Davenport; Justin S. Feinstein; Jamie D. Feusner; Sarah N. Garfinkel; Richard D. Lane; Wolf E. Mehling; Alicia E. Meuret; Charles B. Nemeroff; Stephen Oppenheimer; Frederike H. Petzschner; Olga Pollatos; Jamie L. Rhudy; Lawrence P. Schramm; W. Kyle Simmons; Murray B. Stein; Klaas E. Stephan; Omer Van den Bergh; Ilse Van Diest; Andreas von Leupoldt; Martin P. Paulus. AND
Vivien Ainley; Obada Al Zoubi; Robin Aupperle; Jason Avery; Leslie Baxter; Christoph Benke; Laura Berner; Jerzy Bodurka; Eric Breese; Tiffany Brown; Kaiping Burrows; Yoon-Hee Cha; Ashley Clausen; Kelly Cosgrove; Danielle Deville; Laramie Duncan; Patrice Duquette; Hamed Ekhtiari; Thomas Fine; Bart Ford; Indira Garcia Cordero; Diamond Gleghorn; Yvette Guereca; Neil A. Harrison; Mahlega Hassanpour; Tanja Hechler; Aaron Heller; Natalie Hellman; Beate Herbert; Behnaz Jarrahi; Kara Kerr; Namik Kirlic; Megan Klabunde; Thomas Kraynak; Michael Kriegsman; Juliet Kroll; Rayus Kuplicki; Rachel Lapidus; Trang Le; Kyle Logie Hagen; Ahmad Mayeli; Amanda Morris; Nasir Naqvi; Kristina Oldroyd; Christiane Pané-Farré; Raquel Phillips; Tasha Poppa; William Potter; Maria Puhl; Adam Safron; Margaret Sala; Jonathan Savitz; Heather Saxon; Will Schoenhals; Colin Stanwell-Smith; Adam Teed; Yuri Terasawa; Katie Thompson; Marisa Toups; Satoshi Umeda; Valerie Upshaw; Teresa Victor; Christina Wierenga; Colleen Wohlrab; Hung-wen Yeh; Adrian Yoris; Fadel Zeidan; Vadim Zotev; Nancy Zucker.
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2018-06-05