In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated whether the Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP) adapted mindfulness program improved interoceptive awareness ...

Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. Interoception is the ability to ...

A new study in PLOS One assesses the interoceptive powers of athletes. Interoception, the study explains, is “the detection and perception of stimuli originating from within the body.” I assumed this ...

Interoception is a word many people haven’t heard, but it describes something you experience every moment. As you read this, your body sends you messages about hunger, comfort, tension, fatigue, ...

What if someone asks you, “How do you feel?” and you honestly don’t know the answer? One of the most significant indicators for many common mental disorders, particularly anxiety and depression, is ...

Did you know that anorexia is the most lethal mental health condition? One person dies from an eating disorder every hour in the U.S. Many of these deaths are not from health consequences related to ...