Liang Zhou

Interoception——the perception of internal bodily states such as heartbeat, respiration, and visceral feelings——has long been considered a natural, closed, and pre-reflective dimension of conscious experience. Wearable sensors, biofeedback algorithms, and continuous physiological monitoring are now turning the inner body into a digitally accessible and modifiable object. This article proposes Cyberinteroception as a subdiscipline within the Cyberism framework and argues that digital technologies do not merely measure interoception but re-constitute it by externalising, amplifying, and re-routing internal signals. Three theoretical propositions are advanced and linked to core issues in consciousness research: the Distalisation Thesis (how digital readouts reshape metacognitive access to interoceptive states), the Augmented Regulation Thesis (whether digital feedback loops constitute genuinely new forms of conscious emotional self-regulation), and the Body-Ownership Plasticity Thesis (how artificial interoceptive signals can reshape the minimal self). I conclude that interoception is becoming technically programmable, a development that invites systematic re-examination of bodily self-consciousness in the digital age.

Objective: This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture in improving cognitive impairment of post-stroke patients.Design: Randomized controlled trials investigating the effects of acupuncture compared with no treatment or sham acupuncture on post-stroke cognitive impairment before December 2019 were identified from databases. The literature searching and data extracting were independently performed by two investigators. Study quality was assessed using the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Meta-analyses were performed for the eligible RCTs with Revman 5.3 software.Results: Thirty-seven RCTs were included in this meta-analysis. Merged Random-effects estimates of the gain of MMSE or MoCA were calculated for the comparison of acupuncture with no acupuncture or sham acupuncture. Following 2–8 weeks of intervention with acupuncture, pooled results demonstrated significant effects of acupuncture in improving PSCI assessed by MMSE or MoCA.Conclusion: The results suggest that acupuncture was effective in improving PSCI and supported the needs of more rigorous design with large-scale randomized clinical trials to determine its therapeutic benefits.

Objective: This study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the suicide stroop task in a Chinese college population. Methods: College students who were in the 1st–4th grade, fluent in Chinese, and without color blindness were recruited from a university in Guangzhou, China from September to December 2019. Participants were administered the suicide stroop task at baseline and 1-month follow-up. Results: The suicide stroop task showed excellent internal reliability. However, the suicide stroop task did not reveal suicide-related attentional biases among current suicide ideators and was not significantly associated with the severity of suicidal ideation, depression, hopelessness, nor anhedonia, indicating a lack of concurrent validity for the task. Additionally, the two-time data of interference scores could not generate intraclass correlation coefficients due to a negative average covariance among data, which indicated poor test–retest consistency for the task. Conclusion: The results of this study did not support the use of the suicide stroop task on the identification of suicidal risk among Chinese college students. It is crucial to assess the psychometric properties of behavioral measures rigorously as self-report measures before large applications in clinical and community settings.