Emanuela De Falco, Marco SolcĂ , Fosco Bernasconi, Mariana Babo-Rebelo, Nicole Young, Francesco Sammartino, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Vincent Navarro, Ali R Rezai, Vibhor Krishna, Olaf Blanke
Visceral signals are constantly processed by our central nervous system, enable homeostatic regulation, and influence perception, emotion, and cognition. While visceral processes at the cortical level have been extensively studied using non-invasive imaging techniques, very few studies have investigated how this information is processed at the single neuron level, both in humans and animals. Subcortical regions, relaying signals from peripheral interoceptors to cortical structures, are particularly understudied and how visceral information is processed in thalamic and subthalamic structures remains largely unknown...
March 12, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America