Structural connectivity associated with the sense of body ownership: a diffusion tensor imaging and disconnection study in patients with bodily awareness disorder

A Errante, A Rossi Sebastiano, S Ziccarelli… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The brain mechanisms underlying the emergence of a normal sense of body ownership can
be investigated starting from pathological conditions in which body awareness is selectively …

Using body ownership to modulate the motor system in stroke patients

R Tambone, A Giachero, M Calati… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent findings suggest that body ownership can activate the motor system in the absence
of movement execution. Here, we investigated whether such a process promotes motor …

Disembodiment and Affective Resonances in Esketamine Treatment of Depersonalized Depression Subtype: Two Case Studies

P Sarasso, M Billeci, I Ronga, F Raffone, V Martiadis… - …, 2024 - karger.com
Introduction: Dissociative experiences are considered undesirable ketamine's adverse
events. However, they might be crucial for ketamine's antidepressant effects, at least in some …

What pathological embodiment/disembodiment tell us about body representations

F Garbarini, C Fossataro, L Pia, A Berti - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last decade, a considerable amount of studies investigated different
neuropsychological syndromes related to the disorder of body awareness. In this paper, we …

How tool-use shapes body metric representation: Evidence from motor training with and without robotic assistance

V Bruno, I Carpinella, M Rabuffetti, L De Giuli… - Frontiers in Human …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Previous evidence has shown that tool-use can reshape one's own body schema, extending
peripersonal space and modulating the representation of related body parts. Here, we …

The anatomo-clinical picture of the pathological embodiment over someone else's body part after stroke

L Pia, C Fossataro, D Burin, V Bruno, L Spinazzola… - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, a monothematic delusion of body ownership due to brain damage (ie, the
embodiment of someone else's body part within the patient's sensorimotor system) has been …

A virtual navigation training promotes the remapping of space in allocentric coordinates: Evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging data

K Sacco, I Ronga, P Perna, A Cicerale… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Allocentric space representations demonstrated to be crucial to improve visuo-spatial skills,
pivotal in every-day life activities and for the development and maintenance of other …

The sense of body-ownership gates cross-modal improvement of tactile extinction in brain-damaged patients

C Fossataro, V Bruno, E Bosso, V Chiotti, P Gindri… - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
When body ownership is impaired after brain-damage, the capacity to discriminate between
one's own and others' body-parts is lost. Delusional body-ownership has been recently …

Reach planning with someone else's hand

AR Sebastiano, K Poles, LE Miller, C Fossataro… - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
To investigate the relationship between the sense of body ownership and motor control, we
capitalized on a rare bizarre disorder wherein another person's hand is misattributed to their …

Hand blink reflex in virtual reality: The role of vision and proprioception in modulating defensive responses

C Fossataro, G Tieri, D Grollero… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our research focused on the role of vision and proprioception in modulating a defensive
reflex (hand blink reflex, HBR) whose magnitude is enhanced when the threatened hand is …