Purposeful motor actions depend on the brain’s representation of the body, called the body schema, and disorders of the body schema have been reported to show motor deficits. The body schema has been ...

This paper comprises a feminist phenomenological exploration of women's experiences with breast augmentation and breast reduction. Situating the results of semi-structured interviews in the context of ...

I must now return to that critical question – what do we learn about OBEs by discovering a specific brain area that can induce them? Is the TPJ (the temporo-parietal junction) the mystical opening to ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

People with anorexia nervosa have a distorted relationship with the dimensions of their body. A study by the team at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at LWL University Hospital ...

In patients with anorexia, it could remain at the same level as before the start of the illness. The researchers led by Professor Martin Diers recommend a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy ...

Nearing the end of this series on out-of-body experiences (OBEs), I know that many readers disagree with my conclusion. I believe that these experiences, in which we seem to travel beyond our physical ...

Since claiming that he will build the robotic exoskeleton that enables a paraplegic to perform the opening kickoff during the next world cup, Miguel Nicolelis has been scrambling to make good on his ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...