From body representation to self-experience: neural mechanisms and clinical applications

Chair(s): Valentina Cazzato (University of Messina, Italy, Italy), Catherine Preston (University of York, UK), Rebecca Boehme (Linköping University, Sweden)

Presentations of the Symposium

The bodily self in anorexia and schizophrenia

Rebecca Boehme
Linköping University, Sweden

Interpreting bodily signals under stress: interoceptive accuracy, daily sensibility, and stress reactivity

Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi¹, Antonio Maffei², Gioia Bottesi¹, Nicola Cellini³, Giovanni Mento⁴, Leah Banellis⁵, Micah G. Allen^6
1Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy, ²Padua Neuroscience Center, Italy & University of PadovaDepartment of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy, ³Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy & Padua Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Italy, ⁴Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy & IRCCS E. Medea Scientific Institute, Conegliano, Treviso, Italy, ⁵Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁶Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark & Cambridge Psychiatry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Neural and behavioural changes in the bodily self during pregnancy

Anna Crossland, Catherine Preston
Psychology Department, University of York, United Kingdom

Affective and self-applied touch as modulators of bodily self-epresentation in relational and therapeutic contexts

Valentina Cazzato
Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education, and Cultural Studies University of Messina, Italy & School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom