ArticlePloS one2014
Is body dysmorphic disorder associated with abnormal bodily self-awareness? A study using the rubber hand illusion.
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- Body transfer illusions in the schizophrenia spectrum: a systematic review.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Review
- Ethical Challenges Regarding Cosmetic Surgery in Patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Does Nice or Nasty Matter? The Intensity of Touch Modulates the Rubber Hand Illusion.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Vicarious pain is an outcome of atypical body ownership: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion and enfacement illusion.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2021Article
- Affective touch topography and body image.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Effect of a Virtual-Reality Full-Body Illusion on Body Representation in Obesity.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Induced illusory body ownership in borderline personality disorder.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2019Article
- "Fake it till You Make it"! Contaminating Rubber Hands ("Multisensory Stimulation Therapy") to Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Autism and psychosis as diametrical disorders of embodiment.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2019Article
- The power within: The experimental manipulation of power interacts with trait BDD symptoms to predict interoceptive accuracy.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2016Article
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Abstract
Evidence from past research suggests that behaviours and characteristics related to body dissatisfaction may be associated with greater instability of perceptual body image, possibly due to problems in the integration of body-related multisensory information. We investigated whether people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a condition characterised by body image disturbances, demonstrated enhanced susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion (RHI), which arises as a result of multisensory integration processes when a rubber hand and the participant's hidden real hand are stimulated in synchrony. Overall, differences in RHI experience between the BDD group and healthy and schizophrenia control groups (n = 17 in each) were not significant. RHI strength, however, was positively associated with body dissatisfaction and related tendencies. For the healthy control group, proprioceptive drift towards the rubber hand was observed following synchronous but not asynchronous stimulation, a typical pattern when inducing the RHI. Similar drifts in proprioceptive awareness occurred for the BDD group irrespective of whether stimulation was synchronous or not. These results are discussed in terms of possible abnormalities in visual processing and multisensory integration among people with BDD.
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