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Sahib S. Khalsa is affiliated with the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in the United States, focusing on interdisciplinary research that bridges medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Their scholarly output spans a variety of domains related to mental health, cognitive processes, and brain function.

The main fields of study in Khalsa's research include Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Within these broad areas, they have contributed significantly to several subfields such as Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, functional brain connectivity studies, eating disorders and behaviors, tryptophan and brain disorders, mental health and psychiatry, and heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Khalsa has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues. The most frequent venues where their work appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Scientific Reports, Biological Psychology, and Neuropsychopharmacology.

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of Khalsa's research career, with frequent co-authors including Martin P. Paulus, Rayus Kuplicki, Jennifer L. Stewart, Robin L. Aupperle, and Ryan Smith, indicating active engagement in multidisciplinary research environments.

Selected recent papers represent important contributions to the understanding of interoception, mental health, and computational neuroscience:

  • Neural Circuits of Interoception, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Prevalence and Family-Related Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-injury in Children Aged 9 to 10 Years, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • A Bayesian computational model reveals a failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across depression, anxiety, eating, and substance use disorders, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder, 2020, CNS Spectrums

Best Publications

  • Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

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  • The hierarchical basis of neurovisceral integration.

    Ryan Smith;Julian F. Thayer;Sahib S. Khalsa;Richard D. Lane

  • Severity of neuropsychological impairment in cocaine and alcohol addiction: association with metabolism in the prefrontal cortex.

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Andreana C. Leskovjan;Anne L. Hoff;Robert Hitzemann

  • The pathways of interoceptive awareness

    Sahib S Khalsa;David Rudrauf;Justin S Feinstein;Daniel Tranel

  • Can Interoception Improve the Pragmatic Search for Biomarkers in Psychiatry

    Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa;Rachel C. Lapidus;Rachel C. Lapidus

  • What happens after treatment? A systematic review of relapse, remission, and recovery in anorexia nervosa.

    Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa;Larissa C. Portnoff;Danyale McCurdy-McKinnon;Jamie D. Feusner

  • Neural Circuits of Interoception

    Gary G. Berntson;Sahib S. Khalsa

  • Interoceptive awareness in experienced meditators

    Sahib S. Khalsa;David Rudrauf;Antonio R. Damasio;Richard J. Davidson

  • Current diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders.

    Alexander Bystritsky;Sahib S Khalsa;Michael E Cameron;Jason Schiffman

  • An Active Inference Approach to Interoceptive Psychopathology.

    Martin P. Paulus;Justin S. Feinstein;Justin S. Feinstein;Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa

  • Clinical neurocardiology defining the value of neuroscience-based cardiovascular therapeutics

    Kalyanam Shivkumar;Olujimi A. Ajijola;Inder Anand;J. Andrew Armour

  • Interoceptive awareness declines with age.

    Sahib S. Khalsa;David Rudrauf;Daniel Tranel

  • Prevalence and Family-Related Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-injury in Children Aged 9 to 10 Years

    Danielle C. DeVille;Danielle C. DeVille;Diana Whalen;Florence J. Breslin;Amanda S. Morris;Amanda S. Morris

  • Preserved Self-Awareness following Extensive Bilateral Brain Damage to the Insula, Anterior Cingulate, and Medial Prefrontal Cortices

    Carissa L. Philippi;Justin S. Feinstein;Sahib S. Khalsa;Antonio Damasio

  • Testing the independence of self-reported interoceptive accuracy and attention.

    Jennifer Joanne Murphy;Rebecca Jane Brewer;David Plans;Sahib Khalsa;Sahib Khalsa

  • Altered interoceptive awareness in anorexia nervosa: Effects of meal anticipation, consumption and bodily arousal.

    Sahib S. Khalsa;Michelle G. Craske;Michelle G. Craske;Wei Li;Sitaram Vangala

  • Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation

    Frederike H. Petzschner;Sarah N. Garfinkel;Sarah N. Garfinkel;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Christof Koch

  • A Bayesian computational model reveals a failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across depression, anxiety, eating, and substance use disorders.

    Ryan Smith;Rayus Kuplicki;Justin Feinstein;Justin Feinstein;Katherine L Forthman

  • Bolus isoproterenol infusions provide a reliable method for assessing interoceptive awareness.

    S.S. Khalsa;D. Rudrauf;C. Sandesara;B. Olshansky

  • A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder.

    Daniel L. Drane;Negar Fani;Mark Hallett;Sahib S. Khalsa

  • The Insular Cortex Dynamically Maps Changes in Cardiorespiratory Interoception.

    Mahlega S Hassanpour;W Kyle Simmons;W Kyle Simmons;Justin S Feinstein;Justin S Feinstein;Qingfei Luo

  • Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilateral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala

    Justin S. Feinstein;Justin S. Feinstein;Justin S. Feinstein;Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa;Tim V. Salomons;Kenneth M. Prkachin

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
W. Kyle Simmons
W. Kyle Simmons Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
David Rudrauf
David Rudrauf University of Geneva
Daniel Tranel
Daniel Tranel University of Iowa
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
René Hurlemann
René Hurlemann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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