Rubber Hand Illusion

Illusory hand ownership in a patient with personal neglect for the upper limb, but no somatoparaphenia
The symptoms of patients with left personal neglect are characterized by inattention towards contralesional (left) body parts while at …
Roberta Ronchi, Lukas Heydrich, Andrea Serino, Olaf Blanke
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Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome
Pain is inextricably linked to the body and, in the case of chronic pain, a primary health care problem, often associated with abnormalities in the central representation of painful body parts. Recent work in cognitive neuroscience showed that altering the central representation of the body through multisensory bodily inputs such as visuotactile in the rubber hand illusion or visuomotor during mirror therapy may be of relevance for the understanding and treatment of pain
Marco Solcà, Roberta Ronchi, Javier Bello-Ruiz, Thomas Schmidlin, Bruno Herbelin, François Luthi, Michel Konzelmann, Jean-Yves Beaulieu, François Delaquaize, Armin Schnider, Adrian G. Guggisberg, Andrea Serino, Olaf Blanke
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Virtual reality improves embodiment and neuropathic pain caused by spinal cord injury
OBJECTIVES. To investigate changes in body ownership and chronic neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) using …
Polona Pozeg, Estelle Palluel, Roberta Ronchi, Marco Solcà, Abdul-Wahab Al-Khodairy, Xavier Jordan, Ammar Kassouha, Olaf Blanke
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Multisensory remission of somatoparaphrenic delusion. My hand is back!
This study investigates whether the rubber hand illusion (RHI) can induce a remission of somatoparaphrenia, a somatic delusion usually …
Nadia Bolognini, Roberta Ronchi, Carlotta Casati, Paola Fortis, Giuseppe Vallar
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Somatoparaphrenia, a body delusion. A review of the neuropsychological literature
A review of published brain-damaged patients showing delusional beliefs concerning the contralesional side of the body …
Giuseppe Vallar, Roberta Ronchi
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