Sense of ownership and agency are two important aspects of the minimal self, but how self-perception is affected by social conditions remains unclear. Here, we studied how social inclusion or exclusion of participants in the course of a virtual Cyberball game would affect explicit judgments and implicit measures of ownership and agency (proprioceptive drift, skin conductance responses, and...
People tend to perceive a virtual body standing in front of them as their own if it is either stroked or moving synchronously with their own real body-the out-of-body experience (OBE). We combined synchrony manipulation with two other factors of theoretical interest: the kind of stimulation, visuotactile stimuli or visuomotor correlations, being synchronised and the interoceptive accuracy (IA)...
Abstract Background: The critical issue of treating Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) is to improve antidepressant effect rapid onset and the recovery rates. Significant antidepressant effects of ketamine onset rapidly, but decay rapidly and repeated dosing increases the risks. This study aimed to explore the efficacy and safety of single intravenous ketamine, combined with venlafaxines...