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Body image

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The role of the transcriptional regulator BCL6 in adipose tissue development and remodeling

The adipose tissue is increasingly recognized for the important role it plays in various diseases and pathological conditions, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, cancer, and aging. Despite its long-held reputation for being a ...

EPFL2019

Assessing body image in anorexia nervosa using biometric self-avatars in virtual reality: Attitudinal components rather than visual body size estimation are distorted

Background. Body image disturbance (BID) is a core symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN), but as yet distinctive features of BID are unknown. The present study aimed at disentangling perceptual and attitudinal components of BID in AN. Methods. We investigated n ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2018

Investigating Body Image Disturbance in Anorexia Nervosa Using Novel Biometric Figure Rating Scales: A Pilot Study

Stephan Streuber

This study uses novel biometric figure rating scales (FRS) spanning body mass index (BMI) 13.8 to 32.2kg/m(2) and BMI 18 to 42kg/m(2). The aims of the study were (i) to compare FRS body weight dissatisfaction and perceptual distortion of women with anorexi ...

Wiley2017

Learning new movements after paralysis: Results from a home-based study

Camilla Pierella, Ismael Seanez Gonzalez, Ali Farshchiansadegh

Body-machine interfaces (BMIs) decode upper-body motion for operating devices, such as computers and wheelchairs. We developed a low-cost portable BMI for survivors of cervical spinal cord injury and investigated it as a means to support personalized assis ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Expressing Motivations By Facilitating Other’s Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Alexis David Jacq, Ana Paiva

It is often necessary to understand each other’s motivations in order to cooperate. Reaching such a mutual understanding requires two abilities: to build models of other’s motivations in order to understand them, and to build a model of “my” motivations pe ...

Instituto Superiro Technico2017

The two dimensions of the body representation in women suffering from Anorexia Nervosa

Andrea Serino

A core symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe alteration of body representations. Evidence from somatoperception studies point to a generic disturbances of somatosensory components of body representations. Here we have investigated whether AN patient ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2015

Peripersonal space as the space of the bodily self

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel, Christian Pfeiffer

Bodily self-consciousness (BSC) refers to experience of one's self as located within an owned body (self-identification) and as occupying a specific location in space (self-location). BSC can be altered through multisensory stimulation, as in the Full Body ...

Elsevier2015

Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies – Evidence from two different virtual reality techniques

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

In neurology and psychiatry the detailed study of illusory own body perceptions has suggested close links between bodily processing and self-consciousness. One such illusory own body perception is heautoscopy where patients have the sensation of being redu ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Effects of Age, Sex and Treatment on Weight Loss Dynamics in Overweight People

David Atienza Alonso, Emiliano Luis Rincon Vallejos

The objective of this work is the evaluation of how sex, age and the kind of followed treatment affect weight loss, as well as the development of an explanation to assess the evolution of weight loss dynamics in overweight men and women. The methods use in ...

Canadian Science Publishing, Nrc Research Press2013

Resistance to Diet-Induced Obesity and Associated Metabolic Perturbations in Haploinsufficient Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 Mice

Pierre Magistretti, Sylvain Eric Lengacher, Luc Pellerin

The monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1 or SLC16A1) is a carrier of short-chain fatty acids, ketone bodies, and lactate in several tissues. Genetically modified C57BL/6J mice were produced by targeted disruption of the mct1 gene in order to understand the ...

Public Library of Science2013

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