Researchers are decoding how signals move between body and brain, with implications for how we understand and treat ...

Scientists have a word for how we sense ourselves from the inside: interoception. Today, thanks to a 2021 Nobel Prize and new tools that can map internal signaling across the body, research into ...

Gastrointestinal interoception me be disrupted among women with anorexia nervosa, compared with those that do not have anorexia nervosa.

Interoception is sometimes described as the body's 'sixth sense' - it's the way we perceive and interpret our internal senses and signals like hunger, thirst, and injury. Jim's joined by UK-based ...

Earlier this week, the question about our capacity to talk to the forest landed in the Washington Post, where climate columnist Michael Coren spotlighted my book ...

Disrupted gut sensing predicts relapse in anorexia nervosa, pointing to scalable biomarkers for personalising treatment. Read ...

Yet what it actually means to have "energy" is something medicine has never really got to grips with, says Caroline Williams.

New UCLA-led research highlights the potential of ingestible mechanosensory technology to advance understanding of gastrointestinal interoception and eating disorders ...

Wearable health trackers are the wellness tools of the future, but does knowing more about our bodies than ever before pose a risk to our mental and physical health?

Aging changes gut bacteria in mice, weakening communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring that connection ...

A recent study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science suggests that a popular method used to measure how well ...