Publications by authors named "H Critchley"
Autistic people may be distinguishable from non-autistic individuals in the content and modality of their thoughts. Such differences potentially underlie both psychological vulnerability and strengths, motivating the need to better understand autistic thought patterns. In non-clinical undergraduates, a recent study found that autistic traits were associated with thinking more in words than images.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInteroception, Insula, and Autonomic Integration: Relevance to the Expression and Treatment of Psychiatric Symptoms.
Curr Top Behav Neurosci
November 2024
The mind is embodied, and this is relevant to mental health and psychiatric illness. Interoception is the body-to-brain axis of sensory information flow and its representation at the neural and psychological levels. Interoception is the purported basis for motivation and emotion, and as an inescapable stream of information about the health and functioning of the whole organism, it is proposed to be the foundation to the conscious unitary sense of self.
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- The editorial explores what makes academic psychiatry unique and what qualities define psychiatrists as academics.
- It highlights the importance of academic psychiatry in enhancing clinical services and patient care.
- The piece emphasizes the need to inspire and encourage the upcoming generation to pursue careers in academic psychiatry.
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- The study investigates how schizophrenia (SZ) affects the sense of agency (SoA) by examining the role of cardiac interoception, which is the brain's awareness of internal bodily signals.
- Forty-two individuals with SZ and twenty-nine healthy controls performed a task measuring SoA while their heartbeats were recorded, revealing that cardiac signals affected SoA differently between the groups.
- Results showed that cardiac systole decreased SoA in those with SZ, especially in patients with severe hallucinations, indicating that impaired integration of bodily signals may worsen symptoms and disrupt self-representation.