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Keywords: neurodegeneration, models, Neuropathology, Genetics, Translational research

Received: 24 Jun 2024; Accepted: 25 Jul 2024.

Copyright: © 2024 Latimer, Quadri and Cook. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Breathing Visualization Enhances Interoception and Mental Health

Summary: Visualizing breathing patterns can improve interoceptive awareness and mental well-being. Researchers used a spherical object on screens and spatial audio to mirror users’ breaths, significantly enhancing their bodily awareness and flow state. This immersive sensory experience highlights the connection between external stimuli and internal bodily signals, potentially aiding mental health.

• Visualization of breathing patterns improves interoceptive awareness and flow.
• The study used a multisensory setup with visual and auditory feedback.
• Enhanced interoception is linked to better mental health and emotional regulation.

Source: Reichman University

A new study conducted at Reichman University’s Baruch Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Technology, led by Prof. Amir Amedi, demonstrates how the external representation of physiological signals (interoception) can affect our perception of them and teach us how to improve them in order to balance the body in stressful situations, for example.

The study was recently published in the prestigious journal  Nature Portfolios Scientific Reports .

The researchers focused on breathing for this study, and created an audiovisual representation of the user’s breathing pattern in the form of a spherical object that appears on three screens surrounding the user.

The movement of the object mirrors the user’s breath, expanding in synchrony with each inhale and contracting upon exhalation, creating a sensory connection through the use of many layers that respond to pauses in breath.

The user is also surrounded by a spatial audio system that produces ambient sounds, while an additional sound from the core of the spherical object mimics the rise and fall of ocean waves, both of which also respond to the user’s breath.

This sensory experience was designed in collaboration with video art creator and director Yoav Cohen.

The research team used a variety of tests to assess mind wandering, interoceptive sensibility, and flow, and found that the experience led to a significant improvement in interoceptive sensibility and flow among the users, with a strong correlation between the two results.

Founder and Director of the Baruch Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Technology at Reichman University, Prof. Amir Amedi:  “These findings tell us that there is quite a strong bidirectional relationship between the external representation of our respiratory signals and our awareness of our internal bodily signals.

“The external stimuli help redirect the user’s attention back to their internal sensations, improving bodily awareness. The findings support the idea that sensory substitution can be used to integrate internal and external attention systems, and harnessed to improve mental health.

“They also highlight the relationship between the brain and body, which — for example in the case of breath — is intertwined with the function of our immune system via the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system.”

Amedi explains: “The user’s respiratory signals are translated into dynamic visual and auditory stimuli in real-time. This creates a totally immersive multisensory environment, which takes internal bodily signals and externalizes them to enhance your awareness of these internal processes.

“The experience also includes elements that encourage a more desirable breath pattern. For example, a light from the center of the sphere grows when the user exhales, encouraging longer exhalations, known to have a relaxing effect.

“Together, the auditory and visual cues create an experience that engulfs and immerses the user. This level of engagement enhances the user’s awareness of internal bodily sensations through external signals.”

“What we’re doing is trying to improve interoception,” explains Oran Goral, co-first author of the paper.

“Interoception, your ability to perceive and interpret your own internal bodily signals and sensations, is often impaired in numerous psychological disorders and even neurodegenerative diseases (diseases that damage the brain’s neurons such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s). Improving interoception is associated with improvements in mental health, emotional regulation, and overall well-being.”

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Author: Lital Ben Ari Source: Reichman University Contact: Lital Ben Ari – Reichman University Image: The image is credited to Neuroscience News

Original Research: Open access. “ Enhancing interoceptive sensibility through exteroceptive–interoceptive sensory substitution ” by Amir Amedi et al. Scientific Reports

Enhancing interoceptive sensibility through exteroceptive–interoceptive sensory substitution

Exploring a novel approach to mental health technology, this study illuminates the intricate interplay between exteroception (the perception of the external world), and interoception (the perception of the internal world).

Drawing on principles of sensory substitution, we investigated how interoceptive signals, particularly respiration, could be conveyed through exteroceptive modalities, namely vision and hearing. To this end, we developed a unique, immersive multisensory environment that translates respiratory signals in real-time into dynamic visual and auditory stimuli.

The system was evaluated by employing a battery of various psychological assessments, with the findings indicating a significant increase in participants’ interoceptive sensibility and an enhancement of the state of flow, signifying immersive and positive engagement with the experience. Furthermore, a correlation between these two variables emerged, revealing a bidirectional enhancement between the state of flow and interoceptive sensibility.

Our research is the first to present a sensory substitution approach for substituting between interoceptive and exteroceptive senses, and specifically as a transformative method for mental health interventions, paving the way for future research.

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‘You Think, So You Can Dance?’ Science Is on It.

The emerging field of dance neuroscience is finding that dance, with its multifaceted demands, engages the mind as intensively as the body.

A scene from “Epiphany Machine” at Virginia Tech. The electroencephalography caps track the brain’s electrical activity as the dancers perform. The trees are visualizations of the activity in their brains. Credit... Jonathan Mehring for The New York Times

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• Published July 15, 2024 Updated July 16, 2024

How does an art of the body affect the mind?

“Epiphany Machine,” a performance that’s also a scientific study, paints a picture of the brain on dance — onstage and in data. Two dancers move through a simple sequence of steps while wearing electroencephalography caps, which track their brains’ electrical activity. Lab technicians monitor the caps’ data on laptops. And on a large screen, kaleidoscopic projections illustrate the performers’ brain activity for the audience, in real time.

Feathery fractal trees grow, branch and recede. Chains of numbers snake around in circles, turning blue, then black. It is beautiful and eerie: a pas de quatre for two dancers and their busy minds.

“Epiphany Machine,” performed last month at Virginia Tech, is a product of the young field of dance neuroscience, which explores dance’s unusual brain-body connection. Sophisticated imaging technology has helped reveal that dance’s multifaceted demands engage the mind as intensively as the body; that dance can root our minds more firmly in our physical selves; and that dancing together can help us relate to each other.

These are ideas that dancers grasp intuitively. Unsurprisingly, many scientists in the field are also dance artists, like Elinor Harrison, whose course on the neuroscience of movement at Washington University in St. Louis is subtitled “You Think, So You Can Dance?”

“The way dance integrates the mind and the body, that’s something I’ve felt myself,” Harrison said. “So when we see evidence of these things on a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan” — which measures blood flow in the brain — “it’s the science justifying this embodied knowledge dancers have.”

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Mature vertebrates maintain posture using vestibulospinal neurons that transform sensed instability into reflexive commands to spinal motor circuits. Postural stability improves across development. However, due to the complexity of terrestrial locomotion, vestibulospinal contributions to postural refinement in early life remain unexplored. Here we leveraged the relative simplicity of underwater locomotion to quantify the postural consequences of losing vestibulospinal neurons during development in larval zebrafish of undifferentiated sex. By comparing posture at two timepoints, we discovered that later lesions of vestibulospinal neurons led to greater instability. Analysis of thousands of individual swim bouts revealed that lesions disrupted movement timing and corrective reflexes without impacting swim kinematics, and that this effect was particularly strong in older larvae. Using a generative model of swimming, we showed how these disruptions could account for the increased postural variability at both timepoints. Finally, late lesions disrupted the fin/trunk coordination observed in older larvae, linking vestibulospinal neurons to postural control schemes used to navigate in depth. Since later lesions were considerably more disruptive to postural stability, we conclude that vestibulospinal contributions to balance increase as larvae mature. Vestibulospinal neurons are highly conserved across vertebrates; we therefore propose that they are a substrate for developmental improvements to postural control.

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