๐ Cueing Attention After The Stimulus Is Gone Can Retrospectively Trigger Conscious Perception Is our perceptual experience of a stimulus entirely determined during the early buildup of the sensory representation, within 100 to...
๐ ๐ฌ Functional MRI In The Investigation Of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury This review focuses on the application of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to the investigation of blast-related traumatic brain injury...
๐ Physical, Psychological And Emotional Benefits Of Green Physical Activity: An Ecological Dynamics Perspective Increasing evidence supports the multiple benefits to physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing of green physical activity, a topic of increasing...
๐ Heart Rate In Relation To Insulin Sensitivity And Insulin Secretion In Nondiabetic Subjects OBJECTIVE โ Elevated heart rate has been predictive of cardiovascular disease and has been proposed as a global index of...
๐ Cortisol Rapidly Affects Amplitudes Of Heartbeat-Evoked Brain Potentials โ Implications For The Contribution Of Stress To An Altered Perception Of Physical Sensations? Interoception, the perception of bodily processes, plays an important role in the subjective experience of emotions (Wiens, 2005), in consciousness...
๐ Low Vagal Tone Magnifies The Association Between Psychosocial Stress Exposure And Internalizing Psychopathology In Adolescents Vagal tone is a measure of cardiovascular function that facilitates adaptive responses to environmental challenge. Low vagal tone is associated...
๐ The Vagus Nerve Can Predict And Possibly Modulate Non- Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing A Neuroimmunological Paradigm To Public Health Global burden of diseases (GBD) includes non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These share...
๐ The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate NonCommunicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health Global burden of diseases (GBD) includes non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These share...
๐ BACK TO REALITY ON A TRAIN OF THOUGHT TOWARDS A SOUND SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW What is time? What is space? What makes up matter? What is life? What is consciousness? These fundamental questions may...
๐Neural Responses To Heartbeats In The Default Network Encode The Self In Spontaneous Thoughts Selfhood and autonomic regulation are linked in the Task Negative Network.So our sense of self would be an extension of...
๐ The Antidepressant-Like Effect Of Lactate In An Animal Model Of Menopausal Depression The World Health Organization recently published a report indicating that major depressive disorders (MDD) are affecting 322 million people all...
๐ Characterization Of The Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System The heart is supplied and controlled by centrally derived sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. The classical augmenting influence of sympathetic inputs...
๐ Heart Rate Variability And Cardiac Vagal Tone In Psychophysiological Research โ Recommendations For Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, And Data Reporting Psychophysiological research integrating heart rate variability (HRV) has increased during the last two decades, particularly given the fact that HRV...
๐Identifying Large-Scale Neural Networks Using fMRI Contrary to the DMN, the CEN, also known as the โcognitive-controlโ or โtask-positiveโ network, is most active during cognitive tasks...
๐ Autonomic Adjustments To Exercise In Humans However, perhaps the most notable difference between dynamic and isometric exercise is the pressor response, which occurs to a much...
๐ The Yin And Yang Of Cardiac Autonomic Control: Vago-Sympathetic Interactions Revisited Very interesting paper about the co-activation of Para-Sympathetic & Sympathetic nervous activity relating to the heart. As you can see...
๐ Aggressive Behavior and Altered Amounts of Brain Serotonin and Norepinephrine in Mice Lacking MAOA In the debate surrounding advances in genetic research on aggressive behavior (1), transgenic animal models carrying single gene defects are...
๐ Circadian Disruption In Psychiatric Disorders Nearly all psychiatric disorders present with circadian disruption, such as abnormalities in the timing of the sleep-wake cycle, core body...
๐ Relative Abundance Of Akkermansia Spp. And Other Bacterial Phylotypes Correlates With Anxiety- And Depressive-Like Behavior Following Social Defeat In Mice As discussion of stress and stress-related disorders rapidly extends beyond the brain, gut microbiota have emerged as a promising contributor...
๐ EMERGENT TOOL USE FROM MULTI-AGENT AUTOCURRICULA Creating intelligent artificial agents that can solve a wide variety of complex human-relevant tasks has been a long-standing challenge in...
๐๐ฌ Effects Of Dietary Monosaccharides On Sympathetic Nervous System Activity In Adipose Tissues Of Male Rats Dietary carbohydrate activates the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). As the mechanisms underlying this response are not fully characterized, studies were...
๐ CHRONICALLY INCREASED ACTIVITY OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM: OUR DIET-RELATED โEVOLUTIONARYโ INHERITANCE The importance of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease (CVD), like essential hypertension, atherosclerosis and...
๐ Whole-Body Hyperthermia for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder Limitations of current antidepressants highlight the need to identify novel treatments for major depressive disorder. A prior open trial found...
๐ The Timing Of Mental Events: Libetโs Experimental Findings And Their Implications The major findings by Libet et al. are briefly summarized. The criticisms and alternative proposals by Trevena and Miller, Pockett,...
๐ Visceral Influences On Precision-Weighted Inference Because interoception and Active Inference is the key to the whole system. Visceral influences on precision-weighted inference. (a) Under the...
๐๐ฌTryptophan Metabolic Pathways And Brain Serotonergic Activity: A Comparative Review Soooooo Trp (tryptophan) kills the Fight mode… โThere is a general consensus that low levels of central 5-HT are associated...
๐ UNIVERSE, LIFE, CONSCIOUSNESS For many years, cosmologists believed that the universe from the very beginning looked like an expanding ball of fire. This...
๐ Bacteria Contradict Darwin: Survival Of The Friendliest New microbial research at the University of Copenโ hagen suggests that ‘survival of the friendliest’ outโ weighs ‘survival of the...
๐๐ฌA Neural Substrate Of Prediction And Reward The capacity to predict future events permits a creature to detect, model, and manipulate the causal structure of its interactions...
๐ Lactate: The Ultimate Cerebral Oxidative Energy Substrate? The controversy surrounding the role lactate plays, if any, in the adult brain is as ferocious as any other past...
๐ Increased Sympathetic And Decreased Parasympathetic Activity Rather Than Changes In Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity Is Associated With Metabolic Abnormalities Obesity and the collapse of the Arch. โthese results suggest that especially the combination of increased SNS activity and decreased...
๐๐ฌThe Hidden Value Of Organizational HealthโAnd How To Capture It – McKinsey & Company This is fascinating on many levels. This is the model we will be using for the Evolved Affiliation to do...
๐๐ฌDorsal And Ventral Attention Systems More than a decade ago, Corbetta and Shulman published their influential review article in which they introduced the concept of...
๐ Entropy Generation And Human Aging: Lifespan Entropy And Effect Of Diet Composition And Caloric Restriction Diets Living organisms, like humans and other mammals, constantly need to expend energy to perform physical work, to maintain body temperature...
๐๐ฌ Brain Areas And Pathways In The Regulation Of Glucose Metabolism Glucose is the most important source of fuel for the brain and its concentration must be kept within strict boundaries...
๐ The Central Autonomic Network: Functional Organization, Dysfunction, and Perspective The central autonomic network (CAN) is an integral component of an internal regulation system of the brain and is involved...
๐ Undigested Food And Gut Microbiota May Cooperate In The Pathogenesis Of Neuroinflammatory Diseases: A Matter Of Barriers And A Proposal On The Origin Of Organ Specificity As food is an active subject and may have anti-inflammatory or pro-inflammatory effects, dietary habits may modulate the low-grade neuroinflammation...
๐๐ฌThe Neural Monitoring Of Visceral Inputs, Rather Than Attention, Accounts For First-Person Perspective In Conscious Vision This is a great paper Daniel sent me. There is a mega rabbit hole there. It pretty much says that...
๐ Astrocytic Glycogenderived Lactate Fuels The Brain During Exhaustive Exercise To Maintain Endurance Capacity Brain glycogen stored in astrocytes provides lactate as an energy source to neurons through monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) to maintain neuronal...
๐ Astrocytic Glycogen-Derived Lactate Fuels The Brain During Exhaustive Exercise To Maintain Endurance Capacity Muscle glycogen fuels exercising muscles to sustain endurance capacity. The brain also stores glycogen in astrocytes to produce lactate as...