The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
The insular, also called the insular cortex. This is a brain area that my lab has worked on and other labs have worked on. It's a brain area that has within it a map of our internal interoceptive landscape. It's a map of our internal bodily sensations.
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is the insula the insula has a map of the body surface and the internal organs and is essentially controlling at least in one region interception which is our perception of everything that's happening within our body our perception that our heart rate has increased or decreased our perception that our blood pressure is dropping our perception that our gut feels acidic or full or empty Etc all of the visceral organs are mapped there