ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2019
"Fake it till You Make it"! Contaminating Rubber Hands ("Multisensory Stimulation Therapy") to Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
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- The Effect of Virtual Reality on Emotional Response and Symptoms Provocation in Patients With OCD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Interpreting Anxiety Disorders From the Perspective of Interoceptive Computational Models.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Exploring Visuo-Tactile Temporal Binding Window Plasticity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and dissociative experiences: Suggested underlying mechanisms and implications for science and practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Identifying emotional components of event-related potentials in the brain functioning of individuals with contamination obsessions and comparison with healthy control group.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder-contamination fears, features, and treatment: novel smartphone therapies in light of global mental health and pandemics (COVID-19).CNS spectrums · 2022Review
- The use of virtual reality in assessment and treatment of anxiety and related disorders.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2021Review
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Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a deeply enigmatic psychiatric condition associated with immense suffering worldwide. Efficacious therapies for OCD, like exposure and response prevention (ERP), are sometimes poorly tolerated by patients. As many as 25% of patients refuse to initiate ERP mainly because they are too anxious to follow exposure procedures. Accordingly, we proposed a simple and tolerable (immersive yet indirect) low-cost technique for treating OCD that we call "multisensory stimulation therapy." This method involves contaminating a rubber hand during the so-called "rubber hand illusion" (RHI) in which tactile sensations may be perceived as arising from a fake hand. Notably, Jalal et al. (2015) showed that such fake hand contamination during the RHI provokes powerful disgust reactions in healthy volunteers. In the current study, we explored the therapeutic potential of this novel approach. OCD patients (
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