interoceptive
adjective
in·ter·o·cep·tive ˌin-tə-rō-ˈsep-tiv 
: of, relating to, or being stimuli arising within the body and especially in the viscera
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Mental-health professionals are coming up with techniques to help people improve their ‘interoceptive’ awareness. 
WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 There are links between poor interoceptive ability and depression. Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Nov. 2021 In relevant research, scientists have shown that being interoceptive helps regulate our emotions and therefore reduce anxiety and depression. Modar Bakir, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021 Fundamental questions remain about how interoceptive experiences arise—and for whom. Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021 One form of therapy that can help with panic attacks, Gallagher said, is interoceptive exposures. Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021 Here value is a way of describing a brain’s estimation of its body’s state (i.e., interoceptive and skeletomotor predictions) and how that state will change as the animal moves or encodes something new. Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019 Work in humans with amygdala lesions has dissociated fear of teloreceptive stimuli (snakes, spiders, etc.) from fear of interoceptive stimuli (suffocation). Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019 The region that integrates all this interoceptive information is the insula, a fold in the center of the brain. Helen Thomson, WSJ, 29 June 2018 See More
WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 There are links between poor interoceptive ability and depression. Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Nov. 2021 In relevant research, scientists have shown that being interoceptive helps regulate our emotions and therefore reduce anxiety and depression. Modar Bakir, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021 Fundamental questions remain about how interoceptive experiences arise—and for whom. Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021 One form of therapy that can help with panic attacks, Gallagher said, is interoceptive exposures. Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021 Here value is a way of describing a brain’s estimation of its body’s state (i.e., interoceptive and skeletomotor predictions) and how that state will change as the animal moves or encodes something new. Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019 Work in humans with amygdala lesions has dissociated fear of teloreceptive stimuli (snakes, spiders, etc.) from fear of interoceptive stimuli (suffocation). Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019 The region that integrates all this interoceptive information is the insula, a fold in the center of the brain. Helen Thomson, WSJ, 29 June 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
interior + -o- + -ceptive (as in receptive)
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
interoceptive
adjective
in·tero·cep·tive ˌint-ə-rō-ˈsep-tiv
: of, relating to, or being stimuli arising within the body and especially in the viscera