ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2022
From Virtual Reality to Regenerative Virtual Therapy: Some Insights from a Systematic Review Exploring Inner Body Perception in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa.
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- Relating proprioceptive embodiment to body dissatisfaction in anorexia and bulimia patients: effect of visual body images.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- The role of appearance-related comments and interoceptive deficits in eating disorders: an exploratory study in a 1-year cohort of outpatients.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Quantifying body size estimation accuracy and body dissatisfaction in body dysmorphic disorder using a digital avatar.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2024Article
- Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder Across the Lifespan.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Review
- Metaverse in Mental Health: The Beginning of a Long History.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Women show enhanced proprioceptive target estimation through visual-proprioceptive conflict resolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The multisensory mind: a systematic review of multisensory integration processing in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- What's New in Research during the Current Epidemic Wave of Eating Disorders?Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Exploring multisensory integration of non-naturalistic sounds on body perception in young females with eating disorders symptomatology: a study protocol.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Body weight distortions in an auditory-driven body illusion in subclinical and clinical eating disorders.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Eye movements and eating disorders: protocol for an exploratory experimental study examining the relationship in young-adult women with subclinical symptomatology.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- The Perceived Match Between Observed and Own Bodies, but Not Its Accuracy, Is Influenced by Movement Dynamics and Clothing Cues.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Chronic Pain and Psychiatric Conditions.Complex psychiatryReview
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Abstract
Despite advances in our understanding of the behavioral and molecular factors that underlie the onset and maintenance of Eating Disorders (EDs), it is still necessary to optimize treatment strategies and establish their efficacy. In this context, over the past 25 years, Virtual Reality (VR) has provided creative treatments for a variety of ED symptoms, including body dissatisfaction, craving, and negative emotions. Recently, different researchers suggested that EDs may reflect a broader impairment in multisensory body integration, and a particular VR technique-VR body swapping-has been used to repair it, but with limited clinical results. In this paper, we use the results of a systematic review employing PRISMA guidelines that explore inner body perception in EDs (21 studies included), with the ultimate goal to analyze the features of multisensory impairment associated with this clinical condition and provide possible solutions. Deficits in interoception, proprioception, and vestibular signals were observed across Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, suggesting that: (a) alteration of inner body perception might be a crucial feature of EDs, even if further research is needed and; (b) VR, to be effective with these patients, has to simulate/modify both the external and the internal body. Following this outcome, we introduce a new therapeutic approach-Regenerative Virtual Therapy-that integrates VR with different technologies and clinical strategies to regenerate a faulty bodily experience by stimulating the multisensory brain mechanisms and promoting self-regenerative processes within the brain itself.
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