Disgust drivers do not impact on the altered body in action representation in anorexia nervosa.

Disgust is a powerful emotion that evolved to protect us from contamination and diseases; it also cores to very human feelings, such as shame. In anorexia nervosa, most of the knowledge on disgust regards food. However, disgust can be elicited by varied drivers, including body-related self-disgust, which may be more central to this condition.

Short- and long-term effects of Covid-19 pandemic on health care system for individuals with eating disorders.

Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences have negatively impacted the incidence of EDs, determining a substantial burden on patients, caregivers and healthcare systems world-wide. This literature review aims to investigate the short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on care provider systems, exploring the possibility of "rethinking" ED care programs.

Methods: Records were systematically (following the PRISMA guidelines) identified through PubMed, Google Scholar and Scopus searching.

More implicit and more explicit motor imagery tasks for exploring the mental representation of hands and feet in action.

The mental representation of the body in action can be explored using motor imagery (MI) tasks. MI tasks can be allocated along a continuum going from more implicit to more explicit tasks, where the discriminant is the degree of action monitoring required to solve the tasks (which is the awareness of using the mental representation of our own body to monitor our motor imagery). Tasks based on laterality judgments, such as the Hand Laterality Task (HLT) and the Foot Laterality Task (FLT), provide an example of more implicit tasks (i.

Short-term effects of a multidisciplinary inpatient intensive rehabilitation treatment on body image in anorexia nervosa.

Background: Positive changes in weight gain and eating pathology were reported after inpatient treatments for anorexia nervosa (AN). However, changes in the physical body do not always mirror changes in the imagined body. Here, the effect of a treatment focused on body image (BI) was described.

Exploring the role of disgust in hands and feet laterality judgement tasks.

The hand laterality task (HLT) and the foot laterality task (FLT) are used to explore motor imagery, the ability to imagine an action without executing it. With our limbs, we interact with our body, with others, and with the environment. These contacts might cause negative feelings, such as disgust.

Influence of the Somatic Rubber Hand Illusion on Maximum Grip Aperture.

The classic rubber hand illusion (RHI), based on visual, proprioceptive, and tactile feedback, can affect actions. However, it is not known whether these effects still occur if the paradigm is administered without visual feedback. In this study, we used the somatic RHI to test in thirty-two healthy individuals whether the incorporation of the rubber hand based on proprioceptive and tactile information only is sufficient to generate changes in actions.

Talking with hands: body representation in British Sign Language users.

Body representation (BR) refers to the mental representation of motor, sensory, emotional and semantic information about the physical body. This cognitive representation is used in our everyday life, continuously, even though most of the time we do not appreciate it consciously. In some cases, BR is vital to be able to communicate.

[Aging with HIV: a new challenge for the clinical psychology and the healthcare system.].

Clinicians will have to face an increasing numbers of older HIV-infected patients in coming years. The age cut-off of 50 years often adopted to define "elderly" patients with HIV/AIDS is younger than that usually used in most other settings. The present contribution discusses the main peculiarities and new outcomes of interest of this class of patient from the clinical psychology perspective; the contribution is divided in three section exploring cognitive disorders, psycho-emotional problems and health-related quality of life proposing both a brief synthesis of the main evidence from the literature and some insights and proposals for the importance of involving a psychologist in the clinical care of these patients.