Incarnation and animation: Physical versus representational deWcits of body integrity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-326

  Hilti, Leonie Maria ^a   Brugger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body image; Body integrity identity disorder (BIID); Body schema; Borderlands of psychiatry and neurology; Paraphilias; Parietal lobes

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION STUMP; BODY IMAGE; BODY INTEGRITY IDENTITY DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; COORDINATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HAND MOUTH COORDINATION; HUMAN; ILLUSION; IMAGINATION; LIMB ABSENCE; LIMB DEFORMITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMATRIX; PHANTOM LIMB SENSATION; PHOCOMELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WIEDEMANN SYNDROME I; WISHFUL THINKING; AMPUTATION; ANIMAL; MENTAL DISEASE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

AMPUTATION; ANIMALS; BODY IMAGE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS;

EID: 77958156871     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2043-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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