PSYREFLECT

Issue #55

July 13, 2026

#1Research

The Body Keeps Time: How Heart Rate Bends the Sense of Duration

When the heart slows, the felt clock slows with it, and much of that happens beneath anything the patient can report.

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#2Research

Not Whether the Body Is Heard, but How It Is Trusted: Interoception and Suicide Risk

For suicide risk, the meaningful interoceptive variable is not how precisely the body is detected but whether it is trusted and can be used to steady distress.

suicidologyinteroceptionself-harminsula
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#3Research

When the Mind Wanders Off the Breath: A Signature for Interoceptive Attention Lapses

The moment attention slips off the breath is not noise to be averaged away; it is a network-level event, and returning from it is the skill the practice actually builds.

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#4Research

The Brain's Heartbeat Signal Is Not a Biomarker Yet: A Cautionary Meta-Analysis

The heartbeat evoked potential is the field's favourite objective marker of interoception, and it cannot yet tell clinical brains from healthy ones.

interoceptionheartbeat evoked potentialbiomarkerEEG
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#5Tool

Two Scales, Two Constructs: Interoceptive Accuracy Is Not Interoceptive Attention

In this data, self-reported attention to the body and self-reported accuracy pull apart: attention without accuracy tracked more distress, not less.

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#6Industry

The Wearable Says It Tracks Your Nervous System. The Evidence Base Is 18 Studies.

The wearable is reading heart rate variability; the claim that it reads your interoception is a marketing step the science has taken only twice in five years.

digital phenotypingwearablesinteroceptiondigital therapeutics
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