I recently discovered the series Pantheon. The plot around the mind and machines is really cool 🤖

Discussing our results on brain-heart interactions during motor imagery in brain-computer interfaces, at @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social in lovely Utrecht 🇳🇱

The validation of our method to gather a time-resolved estimation of cardiac rhythms is now online in @royalsocietypublishing.org Our method provides a robust estimation of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic dynamics, allowing covarying pattern analyses doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Main differences were found in the coupling between fronto-parietal links in alpha and gamma bands and cardiac parasympathetic activity during social touch, significantly distinguishing it from self-touch

We identified the links of brain pairwise connectivity that covary with either cardiac sympathetic or parasympathetic/vagal activity, to reveal the whole network associated with cardiac dynamics differentiating two touch conditions

I find this really cool. We recently hypothesized that bodily self-awareness emerges from the brain's functional connections triggered by visceral oscillations: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne.... Temperature felt either inside or outside the body is inherently autonomic, unfortunately people often forget that

A little hallmark in my career, I have my first paper with >100 citations: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We showed that changes in cardiac rhythmicity initiate emotion processing, and that fluctuations in vagal tone shape the changes in brain oscillations, defining subjective levels of arousal 🧠🫀

Proceedings of the recent Conf. from the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations are now online. We have two short papers showing how the time-resolved analysis of cardiac activity can track the changes in obstructive sleep apnea and in freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease

Got some new follows in the recent time, so I'll start resharing some of our papers in the next days: My research primarily focuses on how brain and heart interact and influence one another, demonstrating that this interplay relates to health and consciousness, in humans and more recently in rodents

Heading soon to Chicago for #sfn2024 I'll be presenting at the Interoception session, our forthcoming study on brain-heart interactions at the near-death in rats