Broad is better. But also feel free to rename the lab periodically. You can be the Director of a sleep lab for awhile and then reappoint yourself to run the X lab later - totally up to you. Whatever you do, please don’t feel your science is constrained by a logo/name!!
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Great Q. It is tricky w/ EEG, for sure (hence the need to implant electrodes to map for insular epilepsy). I don’t know where we are w/ noninvasive MEG (where efforts to make it portable are underway). It looks like some are using MEG for insular neurofeedback: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40399603/
Neurofeedback modulation of insula activity via MEG-based brain-machine interface: a double-blind randomized controlled crossover trial - PubMed
Insula activity has often been linked to pain perception, making it a potential target for therapeutic neuromodulation strategies such as neurofeedback. However, it is not known whether insula activit...
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Thank you! I look forward to diving in.
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Thanks. I knew of phosphenes (as light percepts) but not interoceptive ones. This makes sense. The phrase and phenomenology are delightful!
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Interoceptive phosphenes would be sensations of arousal, digestion, heart rate, visceral pain, etc, caused by cortical stimulation of the insula. Exteroceptive ones would be sounds and visual distortions. It's not my term.
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Ha! When I get those Team Insula buttons made, you’re on the list. I’ll leave it to you to scribble “with caveats” in black marker 😊.
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For sure! Primate neurophysiologists have a hard time as well (relatively few high resolution measures of brain activity have been made there).
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By understanding that anterior insula is part of an emotion-relevant network. We can appreciate that the result is not trivial b/c not all bits of the brain are part of that network (eg I bet stimulation of V1 or A1 or M1 doesn't induce sadness). Agree?
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Fascinating! What exactly is an "interoceptive phosphenes"? (I love the phrase ....)
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This is the insula. It's cortex, but sits down deep in its own little lobe. Here, the overlying cortex on this plastic model has been removed so you can see it.
