AbstractBackground and Hypothesis: Embodiment refers to the integration of sensory, motor, and cognitive processes that underpin self-experience, agency, and bodily awareness. Psychosis studies have demonstrated disruptions in embodied processes through a diverse series of methodological approaches. The aim of this scoping review was to systematically review the range of methodological...
There is a growing use of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies in psychosis research and intervention. Validated VR simulations of psychotic-like experience have the potential to allow controlled manipulation of stimuli, reproducibility, and to isolate mechanisms of change in an ethical research framework. Although initial developments appear to be safe, qualitative reporting of participants'...
AbstractBackground: Recent research has examined embodied emotions in psychotic disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate how embodiment, emotional responses and meaning-making interreacted in an experimental simulation of auditory hallucinations in a VR environment (sAH-VR). Methodology: This qualitative experimental study explored embodiment and its relationship to a sAH-VR task...