Exploring the Impact of Ketamine on the Experience of Illusory Body Ownership
Biological Psychiatry 2011 H. Morgan, D. Turner, P. Corlett et al.
Background Our sense of body ownership is profound and familiar, yet it may be misleading. In the rubber-hand illusion, synchronous tactile and visual stimulation lead to the experience that a rubber hand is actually one's own. This illusion is stronger in schizophrenia. Given the evidence that ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist reproduces symptoms of schizophrenia, we...