Fig. 1From: Links among emotional awareness, somatic awareness and autonomic homeostatic processingHypothesis of links among emotional awareness, somatic awareness and autonomic homeostatic processing. Autonomic dysfunction, especially heightened sympathetic tone at baseline and/or impaired variability or reactivity to stress, is involved in the disturbance of emotional and interoceptive awareness. In a dysfunctional condition of the autonomic nervous system, low variability of physiological tone contributes to disturbance of proper perception in emotional/somatic inputs, and the disturbance leads to the impairment of emotional and/or somatic awarenessBack to article page