Recent research has linked bodily self-consciousness to the processing and integration of
multisensory bodily signals in temporoparietal, premotor, posterior parietal and extrastriate …

Pain is a subjective experience that protects the body. This function implies a special
relation between the brain mechanisms underlying pain perception and representation of …

From a technological viewpoint, virtual reality (VR) is a set of fancy technologies: a helmet,
trackers, and a 3D visualizing system. However, from a psychological viewpoint, VR is …

The digital world, and the Internet in particular, have a significant impact on almost all
aspects of our lives. The realm of psychotherapy is an area in which the influence of the …

There is growing evidence that chronic pain conditions can have an associated central
pathology, involving both cortical reorganisation and an incongruence between expected …

Self-consciousness is the remarkable human experience of being a subject: the “I”. Self-
consciousness is typically bound to a body, and particularly to the spatial dimensions of the …

Background Treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI)-associated neuropathic pain is
challenging, with limited efficacy and no definitive options, and SCI patients often show …

Modifying the visual aspect of a virtual arm that is felt as one's own using immersive virtual
reality (VR) modifies pain threshold in healthy subjects, but does it modify pain ratings in …

In recent years, an increasing number of studies employed the full body illusion paradigm
(ie, the experimentally induced illusory ownership over a fake/virtual body) to investigate the …

A central feature of our consciousness is the experience of the self as a unified entity
residing in a physical body, termed bodily self-consciousness. This phenomenon includes …