The bodily self and its disorders: neurological, psychological and social aspects

P Brugger, B Lenggenhager - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2014 - journals.lww.com
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Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? Psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other

A Sedda, G Bottini - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This review summarizes the available studies of a rare condition in which individuals seek
the amputation of a healthy limb or desire to be paraplegic. Since 1977, case reports and …

A conceptual framework on body representations and their relevance for mental disorders

A Möllmann, N Heinrichs, A Herwig - Frontiers in psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Many mental disorders are accompanied by distortions in the way the own body is perceived
and represented (eg, eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder including muscle …

Limb amputation and other disability desires as a medical condition

P Brugger, M Christen, L Jellestad, J Hänggi - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2016 - thelancet.com
Some people have a profound dissatisfaction with what is considered an able-bodied state
by most others. These individuals desire to be disabled, by conventional standards. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of bodily states on cognition: A web-based study in individuals with body integrity dysphoria

JT Ho, G Saetta, B Lenggenhager - Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
There is a constant reciprocal flow of information between the malleable sensorimotor states
of the body and cognitive functions, and some embodied cognition approaches argue that …

The desire for amputation or paralyzation: Evidence for structural brain anomalies in body integrity identity disorder (BIID)

RM Blom, GA van Wingen, SJ van der Wal, J Luigjes… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is a condition in which individuals
perceive a mismatch between their internal body scheme and physical body shape …

Body ownership: When feeling and knowing diverge

D Romano, A Sedda, P Brugger, G Bottini - Consciousness and cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Individuals with the peculiar disturbance of 'overcompleteness' experience an intense desire
to amputate one of their healthy limbs, describing a sense of disownership for it (Body …

[HTML][HTML] Not my body, not my pain? Pain perception and placebo analgesia in individuals with body integrity dysphoria

JT Ho, P Krummenacher, B Lenggenhager - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Acute and chronic states of physical pain are inherently linked to our bodily perception.
Bodily illusion paradigms have demonstrated that an experimentally induced sense of body …

Interoceptive and affective alterations in body integrity dysphoria: an online self-reporting study

A Capodici, A Pennisi, G Rizzo, A Falzone… - Psychopathology, 2024 - karger.com
Introduction: Body integrity dysphoria (BID) is a rare condition in which individuals
experience a long-lasting desire to achieve a specific physical disability. In this study, we …

Brain activity elicited by viewing pictures of the own virtually amputated body predicts xenomelia

S Oddo-Sommerfeld, J Hänggi, L Coletta, S Skoruppa… - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Xenomelia is a rare condition characterized by the persistent desire for the
amputation of physically healthy limbs. Prior studies highlighted the importance of superior …