Bodily sense and sensibility: anosognosia, asomatognosia and anorexia

Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou PhD, is a Reader in Psychodynamic Neuroscience at the Psychology and Language Sciences Division, University College London. Funded by a Starting Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for the project ‘Bodily Self’, she runs KatLab, a group of researchers and students that conduct studies on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology. See here for publications and our Lab's Campaign on further funding on ‘Body Image’ Neuroscientific Research: http://www.fotopoulou.com Katerina is also the Director of the London Neuropsychoanalysis Centre and runs the London Neuropsychoanalysis Group on: ‘Psychodynamic Neuroscience and Neuropsychology’. She is the editor of the volume: Fotopoulou, A. Conway, M.A. Pfaff, D. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2012. She is a founding member of the new International Association for the Study of Affective Touch. See www.neuropsa.org.uk for the inaugural congress of this society. UCL, 20–22 March 2015. According to the ‘embodied cognition’ approach several facets of awareness are causally related to the physical body and its properties. Primary sensorimotor signals are integrated and re-represented in various levels of the neurocognitive hierarchy to form a number of neurocognitively distinct bodily representations, including unconscious and conscious facet...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Stroke, Eating disorders PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS - DAY 2 Source Type: research