Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers have mapped how different parts of the brain work together. Specifically, they ...

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

Interoception, the body’s ability to sense its internal state accurately and promptly facilitated by the vagus nerve, is crucial for the functioning of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, ...

April is Autism Awareness Month. While many things are still unknown about autism, researchers, therapists and the loved ones of those affected are working each day to unravel the mysteries ...

When the question is “how are you feeling on the inside?,” it’s our vagus nerve that offers the answer. But how does the body’s longest cranial nerve, running from brain to large intestine, encodes ...

Researchers have also demonstrated that bodily signals such as breathing patterns and gut rhythms can influence emotional ...

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, “Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...