From Body to Brain and Back: Multimodal Evidence for Interoceptive Alterations in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
medRxiv Preprint Server January 13, 2026 Deniz Yilmaz, Lena Deller, Johanna Spaeth et al. preprint
When the brain and body misalign, emotional experience and sense of reality can be disrupted. Although such atypical experiences are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), interoception, processing of internal bodily signals, remains poorly understood in individuals with SSD, particularly across subjective, behavioural, and neural domains. We tested whether SSD is associated with...