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 …

Contralesional motor deficits after unilateral stroke reflect hemisphere-specific control mechanisms

S Mani, PK Mutha, A Przybyla, KY Haaland, DC Good… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We have proposed a model of motor lateralization, in which the left and right hemispheres
are specialized for different aspects of motor control: the left hemisphere for predicting and …

Could brain–computer Interface be a new therapeutic approach for body integrity dysphoria?

S Chakraborty, G Saetta, C Simon… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Patients suffering from body integrity dysphoria (BID) desire to become disabled, arising
from a mismatch between the desired body and the physical body. We focus here on the …

Taking phenomenology beyond the first-person perspective: conceptual grounding in the collection and analysis of observational evidence

ME Klinke, AV Fernandez - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Phenomenology has been adapted for use in qualitative health research, where it's often
used as a method for conducting interviews and analyzing interview data. But how can …

An anatomical account of somatoparaphrenia

M Gandola, P Invernizzi, A Sedda, ER Ferrè, R Sterzi… - Cortex, 2012 - Elsevier
Somatoparaphrenia is a delusional belief whereby a patient feels that a paralyzed limb does
not belong to his body; the symptom is typically associated with unilateral neglect and most …

Arousal responses to noxious stimuli in somatoparaphrenia and anosognosia: clues to body awareness

D Romano, M Gandola, G Bottini, A Maravita - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
A complex brain representation of our body allows us to monitor incoming sensory stimuli
and plan actions towards the external world. A critical element of such a complex …

The dynamic nature of the sense of ownership after brain injury. Clues from asomatognosia and somatoparaphrenia

D Romano, A Maravita - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
The sense of ownership is the feeling that a body part belongs to ourselves. Brain damage
may disrupt this feeling, leading to somatoparaphrenia (SP), ie, the delusion that one's limbs …

Phenomenology and neural correlates of implicit and emergent motor awareness in patients with anosognosia for hemiplegia

V Moro, S Pernigo, P Zapparoli, Z Cordioli… - Behavioural brain …, 2011 - Elsevier
Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AH) is characterized by a lack of awareness of motor disorders
and appears associated with fronto-temporal-parietal damage. Neuropsychological …

Movements and body ownership: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion after mechanical limb immobilization

D Burin, F Garbarini, V Bruno, C Fossataro… - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
There is no consensus on whether, and to what extent, actions contribute to constructing
awareness of one's own body. Here we investigated at both physiological and behavioral …

[PDF][PDF] The body and cognition: The relation between body representations and higher level cognitive and social processes

C Dijkerman, B Lenggenhager - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
(Bergouignan, Nyberg, & Ehrsson, 2014). These experimental body manipulation paradigms
can also modulate social cognition, such as social distance perception (Mazzurega, Pavani …