Recent findings suggest that body ownership can activate the motor system in the absence
of movement execution. Here, we investigated whether such a process promotes motor …

The brain mechanisms underlying the emergence of a normal sense of body ownership can
be investigated starting from pathological conditions in which body awareness is selectively …

In the last decade, a considerable amount of studies investigated different
neuropsychological syndromes related to the disorder of body awareness. In this paper, we …

Introduction: Dissociative experiences are considered undesirable ketamine's adverse
events. However, they might be crucial for ketamine's antidepressant effects, at least in some …

Allocentric space representations demonstrated to be crucial to improve visuo-spatial skills,
pivotal in every-day life activities and for the development and maintenance of other …

Recently, a monothematic delusion of body ownership due to brain damage (ie, the
embodiment of someone else's body part within the patient's sensorimotor system) has been …

Previous evidence has shown that tool-use can reshape one's own body schema, extending
peripersonal space and modulating the representation of related body parts. Here, we …

To investigate the relationship between the sense of body ownership and motor control, we
capitalized on a rare bizarre disorder wherein another person's hand is misattributed to their …

When body ownership is impaired after brain-damage, the capacity to discriminate between
one's own and others' body-parts is lost. Delusional body-ownership has been recently …

The ability to discriminate between one's own and others' body parts can be lost after brain
damage, as in patients who misidentify someone else's hand as their own (pathological …