“I can’t tell whether it’s my hand”: A pilot study of the neurophenomenology of body representation during the rubber hand illusion in trauma-related disorders

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Rabellino, Daniela ^a   Harricharan, Sherain ^a   Frewen, Paul A ^a,b   Burin, Dalila ^c   McKinnon, Margaret C ^d,e,f   Lanius, Ruth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f HOMEWOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomic arousal; Body ownership; Consciousness; Depersonalization; Derealization; Dis embodiment; Multi sensorial integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017544090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v7.32918     Document Type: Article

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