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Body image distortions following spinal cord injury [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Following spinal cord injury (SCI) or anaesthesia, people may continue to experience feelings of the size, shape, and posture of their body, suggesting that the conscious body image is not fully determined by immediate sensory signals.
Longo, Matthew R.   +9 more
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Imaging Body Armor [PDF]

open access: yesMilitary Medicine, 2002
This study examined the feasibility of performing radiographic studies on patients wearing standard-issue body armor. The Kevlar helmet, fragmentation vest, demining suit sleeve, and armor plate were studied with plain film and computed tomography in a simulated casualty situation. We found that the military helmet contains metal screws and metal clips
H Theodore, Harcke   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Body image dissatisfaction and body regulation practices

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Body image dissatisfaction as negative evaluation of personal physical characteristics is often associated with low self-esteem, eating and affective disorders.
E. Nikolaev
doaj   +1 more source

Self awareness and the body image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
What mental representations give us the sense of our body as a unique object in the world? We investigated this issue in the context of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), an illusion of body image in which a prosthetic hand brushed synchronously, but not ...
Longo, Matthew R.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
Prolonged exposure to wide (thin) bodies causes a perceptual aftereffect such that subsequently viewed bodies appear thinner (wider) than they actually are. This phenomenon is known as visual adaptation.
Kevin R. Brooks   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disturbed body schema, perceptual body image, and attitudinal body image in patients with borderline personality disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
BackgroundBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder that affects attitudes toward the body. However, whether this condition also affects body schema and perceptual body image remains unclear.
Dorottya Szily   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

BODY IMAGE IN AGING

open access: yesAnti-Aging Eastern Europe, 2023
Body image relates to how individuals perceive and feel about their bodies. Research on body image in men, women, and adolescents has increased substantially in the past two decades.
Emine Kocyigit
doaj   +1 more source

Culture and body image [PDF]

open access: yesMotricidade, 2009
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between culture and body image. We intend to know how socio-cultural factors influence the levels of satisfaction with body image.
D. Alves   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Body Image and Body Dysmorphic Concerns

open access: yesActa Dermato Venereologica, 2014
Most people would like to change something about their bodies and the way that they look, but for some it becomes an obsession. A healthy skin plays an important role in a person's physical and mental wellbeing, whereas a disfiguring appearance is associated with body image concerns.
Tomas-Aragones, L., Marron, S.E.
openaire   +5 more sources

Body image as a multidimensional concept: A systematic review of body image facets in eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia

open access: yes, 2022
Body image disturbance is core to the psychopathology of eating disorders (EDs), and related disorders such as muscle dysmorphia (MD). Global measures of body image fail to quantify specific aspects of body image disturbance that characterizes EDs, and ...
Jukic, I   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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