The bodily self: Insights from clinical and experimental research
- Dieguez, Sebastian Laboratory for Cognitive and Neurological Sciences, Unité de Neurologie, Département de Médecine, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
- Lopez, Christophe Laboratoire de Neurosciences Intégratives et Adaptatives, UMR 7260, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre Saint-Charles, Marseille, France
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01.06.2017
Published in:
- Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. - 2017, vol. 60, no. 3, p. 198–207
English
This review article summarizes neuropsychological descriptions of abnormal body representations in brain-damaged patients and recent neuroscientific investigations of their sensorimotor underpinnings in healthy participants. The first part of the article describes unilateral disorders of the bodily self, such as asomatognosia, feelings of amputation, supernumerary phantom limbs and somatoparaphrenia, as well as descriptions of non-lateralized disorders of the bodily self, including Alice in Wonderland syndrome and autoscopic hallucinations. Because the sensorimotor mechanisms of these disorders are unclear, we focus on clinical descriptions and insist on the importance of reporting clinical cases to better understand the full range of bodily disorders encountered in neurological diseases. The second part of the article presents the advantages of merging neuroscientific approaches of the bodily self with immersive virtual reality, robotics and neuroprosthetics to foster the understanding of the multisensory, motor and neural mechanisms of bodily representations.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Médecine
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
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- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 306750
- DOI 10.1016/j.rehab.2016.04.007
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/306527
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