Topic: interoceptive accuracy

Purpose; We wanted to investigate how brain activation patterns of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) differs from that of the neurotypicals (NT) in the context of perspective- taking for pain situations, and how these characteristics are related to the interoceptive accuracy of patients with ASD. Method; We presented the ASD group (N=17) and NT group (N=20) with pain-related visual situations during the fMRI scan, and ordered them 1) to imagine as if the subjects themselves were experiencing those pain situations (Self-perspective), or 2) to imagine as if a third party was experienc

Highly hypnotizable individuals (highs) show lower interoceptive accuracy than individuals with low hypnotizability (lows), which may be due to their lower insular grey matter volume. However, none of the previous studies investigated interoceptive processing in medium hypnotizable individuals (mediums), who represent the majority of the population. Thus, in the present research we compared both interoceptive accuracy and heartbeat-evoked cortical potentials (HEP) in all three hypnotizability groups. EEG and ECG were recorded in a sample of 14 highs, 14 mediums and 18 lows (classified by the S