The erosion of the relationship between science communication and the general public became increasingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of this is no doubt due to a numbness caused by the popular media barrage of new cancer and disease cures, if not the end of aging itself.

Caroline Williams is a seasoned translator of neuroscience into accessible language. In Inner Sense , her study of interoception traces the history of a niche scientific field as well as potential future vistas.

Interoception refers to signals arising from the body and communicated to the brain — perceptions of fullness, feelings of worry and respiration rates are familiar examples. When heeded and correctly interpreted, interoception keys us to shifts away from homeostasis towards incipient illness and

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