Interoception: The Secret Ingredient

Cerebrum. 2021 Jul 1:2021:cer-06-21. eCollection 2021 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

Your brain keeps you alive and well by running a metabolic "budget" for your body. Our authors, who co-direct the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital, explain how these budgetary activities, and the sensations they create inside your body, suggest surprising connections between brain, mind, body, and world.