Interoception
Scientists receive $14.2 million NIH award to map the body’s ‘hidden sixth sense’
Heather Vogel Verificato
A team led by Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research, working with collaborators at the Allen Institute, has secured a five-year, $14.2 million NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to build what they describe as the first atlas of interoception—the internal sensory system that helps keep breathing, blood pressure and digestion in balance. ([eurekalert.org](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101449?utm_source=openai))