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Schoeller F, Horowitz AH, Jain A, Maes P, Reggente N, Christov-Moore L, Pezzulo G, Barca L, Allen M, Salomon R, Miller M, Di Lernia D, Riva G, Tsakiris M, Chalah MA, Klein A, Zhang B, Garcia T, Pollack U, Trousselard M, Verdonk C, Dumas G, Adrien V, Friston K. Interoceptive technologies for psychiatric interventions: From diagnosis to clinical applications. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 156:105478. [PMID: 38007168 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/27/2023]
Abstract
Interoception-the perception of internal bodily signals-has emerged as an area of interest due to its implications in emotion and the prevalence of dysfunctional interoceptive processes across psychopathological conditions. Despite the importance of interoception in cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry, its experimental manipulation remains technically challenging. This is due to the invasive nature of existing methods, the limitation of self-report and unimodal measures of interoception, and the absence of standardized approaches across disparate fields. This article integrates diverse research efforts from psychology, physiology, psychiatry, and engineering to address this oversight. Following a general introduction to the neurophysiology of interoception as hierarchical predictive processing, we review the existing paradigms for manipulating interoception (e.g., interoceptive modulation), their underlying mechanisms (e.g., interoceptive conditioning), and clinical applications (e.g., interoceptive exposure). We suggest a classification for interoceptive technologies and discuss their potential for diagnosing and treating mental health disorders. Despite promising results, considerable work is still needed to develop standardized, validated measures of interoceptive function across domains and before these technologies can translate safely and effectively to clinical settings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Felix Schoeller
- Fluid Interfaces Group, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, USA; Department Cognitive Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
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- Fluid Interfaces Group, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Center for Sleep and Cognition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
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- Fluid Interfaces Group, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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- Fluid Interfaces Group, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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- Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark; Cambridge Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department Cognitive Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
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- Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, Hokkaido University, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; Applied Technology for Neuro- Psychology Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; Applied Technology for Neuro- Psychology Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy
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- The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- EA 4391, Excitabilité Nerveuse et Thérapeutique, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France; Service de Physiologie - Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
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- Child Mind Institute, New York City, USA
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- Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Place Général Valérie André, 91220 Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
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- Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Place Général Valérie André, 91220 Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
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- Infrastructure for Clinical Research in Neurosciences (iCRIN) Psychiatry, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France; Department of Psychiatry, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP, Sorbonne Université, 75012 Paris, France
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- Queen Sq, Institute of Neurology, UCL, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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Schoeller F, Jain A, Horowitz AH, Yan G, Hu X, Maes P, Salomon R. ChillsDB: A Gold Standard for Aesthetic Chills Stimuli. Sci Data 2023; 10:307. [PMID: 37210402 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02064-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023] Open
Abstract
We introduce ChillsDB the first validated database of audiovisual stimuli eliciting aesthetic chills (goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) in a US population. To discover chills stimuli "in the wild", we devised a bottom-up, ecologically-valid method consisting in searching for mentions of the emotion' somatic markers in user comments throughout social media platforms (YouTube and Reddit). We successfully captured 204 chills-eliciting videos of three categories: music, film, and speech. We then tested the top 50 videos in the database on 600+ participants and validated a gold standard of 10 stimuli with a 0.9 probability of generating chills. All ChillsDB tools and data are fully available on GitHub for researchers to be able to contribute and perform further analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Felix Schoeller
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, USA.
- Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Centre, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
- Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, Califronia, USA.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, USA.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
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- Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Centre, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Horowitz AH, Esfahany K, Gálvez TV, Maes P, Stickgold R. Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance. Sci Rep 2023; 13:7319. [PMID: 37188795 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31361-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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The link between dreams and creativity has been a topic of intense speculation. Recent scientific findings suggest that sleep onset (known as N1) may be an ideal brain state for creative ideation. However, the specific link between N1 dream content and creativity has remained unclear. To investigate the contribution of N1 dream content to creative performance, we administered targeted dream incubation (a protocol that presents auditory cues at sleep onset to introduce specific themes into dreams) and collected dream reports to measure incorporation of the selected theme into dream content. We then assessed creative performance using a set of three theme-related creativity tasks. Our findings show enhanced creative performance and greater semantic distance in task responses following a period of N1 sleep as compared to wake, corroborating recent work identifying N1 as a creative sweet spot and offering novel evidence for N1 enabling a cognitive state with greater associative divergence. We further demonstrate that successful N1 dream incubation enhances creative performance more than N1 sleep alone. To our knowledge, this is the first controlled experiment investigating a direct role of incubating dream content in the enhancement of creative performance.
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Affiliation(s)
- Adam Haar Horowitz
- MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
- Center for Sleep and Cognition and Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
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- MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
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- Center for Sleep and Cognition and Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Carr M, Haar Horowitz A, Amores J, Maes P. Towards engineering dreams. Conscious Cogn 2020; 85:103006. [PMID: 32854064 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Michelle Carr
- Sleep and Neurophysiology Laboratory, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
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Schoeller F, Bertrand P, Gerry LJ, Jain A, Horowitz AH, Zenasni F. Combining Virtual Reality and Biofeedback to Foster Empathic Abilities in Humans. Front Psychol 2019; 9:2741. [PMID: 30804868 PMCID: PMC6370744 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Felix Schoeller
- Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- U1001, Institut National de la santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France
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- VR Frontiers Lab (CRI Labs), Institut Innovant de Formation par la Recherche, USPC, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires, Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Psychologie et d'Ergonomie Appliquées (UMR), Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut de Psychologie, Paris, France
- BeAnotherLab Research, BeAnotherLab Association, Barcelona, Spain
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- Multisensory Experience Lab, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Enactive Virtuality Lab, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Fluid Interfaces Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie et d'Ergonomie Appliquées (UMR), Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut de Psychologie, Paris, France
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