Dr. Micah Allen | Towards better interoceptive biomarkers in computational psychiatry

Empirical evidence and theoretical models both increasingly emphasize the

importance of interoceptive processing in mental health. Indeed, many

mood and psychiatric disorders involve disturbed feelings and/or beliefs

about the visceral body. However, current methods to measure

interoceptive ability are limited in a number of ways, restricting the

utility and interpretation of interoceptive biomarkers in psychiatry.

I will present some newly developed measures and models which aim to

improve our understanding of disordered brain-body interaction in

psychiatric illnesses.