Speakers > Henry Evrard Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Dr. Henry Evrard (Doctor in science, University of Liège) holds senior positions at the International Center for Primate Brain Research in Shanghai, the Nathan Kline Institute in New York, and the Center for Integrative Neuroscience in Tübingen. His research concentrates on the peripheral and central pathways of interoception and autonomic control in complex behaviors, involving the co-regulation of brain and bodily 'states', and providing the basis for human subjective feelings.
Functional & Comparative Neuroanatomy of Interoception
The physiological condition of the body (interoception) exerts a major influence on central emotional and cognitive processes. Recent human and non-human primate studies in our and other labs suggest the existence of an afferent-efferent Interocepto-Autonomic Circuit Loop (IACL) interfacing bodily and brain 'states' in various cortical regions, including the insular cortex. Through iterative integrations of interoception with multi-modal activities, the IACL could provide a neurobiological basis for the anticipatory homeostatic filtering of salient events and adaptive autonomic and behavioral event-responses that accompany human subjective feelings. In this talk, we present neuroanatomical (architectonics and tract-tracing), functional (fMRI, electrophysiology, local perturbations) and comparative (human/monkey) insights on the organization of the primate IACL |
