Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa.

ABSTRACT: The awareness of our body arises from the convergence between physical (e.g., autonomic signals, perception of body in space) and mental (e.g., subjective sensations) components. The divergence between these components could characterise bodily self-awareness distortions that are typical of some neuropsychiatric syndromes, such as Anorexia Nervosa. We investigated this hypothesis by testing 22 women with restrictive-type AN and a matched sample of 22 healthy women with a multisensory integration paradigm. Participants underwent the Mirror Box Illusion, by which we explored three different (typically convergent) elements of bodily self-awareness: (i) the subjective experiences of embodiment, (ii) hand localisation, and (iii) the skin temperature change associated with the manipulation. In p

SUBMITTER: Salvato G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11954850 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature