Ignacio Rebollo
@brainandstomach.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying gut-brain interactions in humans. Based in Berlin, Germany
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So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
#interoception #neuroskyence
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
#interoception #neuroskyence
Thank you @dalmaijer.bsky.social for this excellent spotlight on our stomach-brain synchrony research! The analysis beautifully highlights how "more interoception isn't always better", it's about the context and interpretation of bodily signals.
In this @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Spotlight, I describe how a recent paper by @leahbanellis.bsky.social, @brainandstomach.bsky.social, et al. opens new avenues in interoception research, including those focussed on the subjective interpretation of internal signals: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health
In common parlance, ‘being in touch with your body’ is often used positively. However,
in a recent study, Banellis, Rebollo, and colleagues show that better stomach–brain
synchronisation is actually a...
www.cell.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thank you @dalmaijer.bsky.social for this excellent spotlight on our stomach-brain synchrony research! The analysis beautifully highlights how "more interoception isn't always better", it's about the context and interpretation of bodily signals.
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Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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visualizes gut peristalsis together with enteric nervous system activity,
September 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
visualizes gut peristalsis together with enteric nervous system activity,
Exciting news: I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project GUT-FEEL: Gut influences on brain and mind🥳#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Exciting news: I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project GUT-FEEL: Gut influences on brain and mind🥳#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu
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Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
www.medrxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
A dream EEG and mentation database
Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...
rdcu.be
August 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep.
In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
#sleep
#dreams
#EEG
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You’re now breathing manually 🌬️
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception
Interoception, the perception and integration of physiological signals, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness and homeostasis. While previous work has explored interoceptive processing in the card...
www.jneurosci.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
You’re now breathing manually 🌬️
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
Our paper with @leahbanellis.bsky.social
and @micahgallen.com was just published in Nature Mental Health! In a large neuroimaging study (n=243), we show that stronger coupling between the stomach and frontoparietal brain regions predicts poorer mental health
and @micahgallen.com was just published in Nature Mental Health! In a large neuroimaging study (n=243), we show that stronger coupling between the stomach and frontoparietal brain regions predicts poorer mental health
Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
July 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Our paper with @leahbanellis.bsky.social
and @micahgallen.com was just published in Nature Mental Health! In a large neuroimaging study (n=243), we show that stronger coupling between the stomach and frontoparietal brain regions predicts poorer mental health
and @micahgallen.com was just published in Nature Mental Health! In a large neuroimaging study (n=243), we show that stronger coupling between the stomach and frontoparietal brain regions predicts poorer mental health
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Loved presenting our Brain-Body tutorial🫀🫁🧠 at #ASSC28, great initiative & brilliant talk from @brainandstomach.bsky.social & awesome talks as always from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social & @marieloescher.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the conference!
July 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Loved presenting our Brain-Body tutorial🫀🫁🧠 at #ASSC28, great initiative & brilliant talk from @brainandstomach.bsky.social & awesome talks as always from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social & @marieloescher.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the conference!
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Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
June 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
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There are concerns that Bluesky's impact has faded since the initial hype. This is false.
That impression results from reading headlines about social media instead of the hard data.
The five HIGHEST points of Bluesky posts mentioning research all occur in the last 2 weeks.
That impression results from reading headlines about social media instead of the hard data.
The five HIGHEST points of Bluesky posts mentioning research all occur in the last 2 weeks.
March 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There are concerns that Bluesky's impact has faded since the initial hype. This is false.
That impression results from reading headlines about social media instead of the hard data.
The five HIGHEST points of Bluesky posts mentioning research all occur in the last 2 weeks.
That impression results from reading headlines about social media instead of the hard data.
The five HIGHEST points of Bluesky posts mentioning research all occur in the last 2 weeks.
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Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
March 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
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1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Does anyone has experience performing volumetric null models on neuromaps?
January 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Does anyone has experience performing volumetric null models on neuromaps?
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I could not find a body representation starter pack so I made one! Please message if you want to join. I know I missed excellent scientists, philosophers and clinicians out there go.bsky.app/EAmckAo
January 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I could not find a body representation starter pack so I made one! Please message if you want to join. I know I missed excellent scientists, philosophers and clinicians out there go.bsky.app/EAmckAo
Is there an "interoceptive researchers" starter packs already on bsky? should we make one?
December 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Is there an "interoceptive researchers" starter packs already on bsky? should we make one?
[Postdoc position] at the Decision, Neuroscience and Nutrition department www.dife.de/en/career/cu...
Postdoc DNN
www.dife.de
December 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
[Postdoc position] at the Decision, Neuroscience and Nutrition department www.dife.de/en/career/cu...
Happy to announce that we will be hosting a tutorial at next ASSC Greece entitled "Methods for Analyzing Brain-Body Interactions in Consciousness Research" with @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Marie Loescher
December 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Happy to announce that we will be hosting a tutorial at next ASSC Greece entitled "Methods for Analyzing Brain-Body Interactions in Consciousness Research" with @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Marie Loescher
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📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
November 25, 2024 at 7:32 PM
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception