Bodily Mechanics and Nutrition

Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness.

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies ...

The Intimate Connexion: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency

Mindfulness and bodily distress.

We have created a mindfulness approach to treat patients who experience multiple, persistent, and disabling physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a well-defined medical or surgical condition. Randomized controlled trials in this area are few, and research is hampered by the lack of clear definitions. Bodily distress syndrome (BDS) or bodily stress is an empirically defined definition un...

Somatotopy and bodily hallucinations.

Emotions and Bodily Changes

artery sclerosis. Many of the patients also showed an elevated blood uric level, thus further emphasizing the variety of metabolic derangements involved in this important disease. The role of habits and certain life situations in the genesis of coronary heart disease could not be ascertained from the authors' data. The coronary heart disease group did consume more tobacco than the control group...