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Learning the Rubber Hand Illusion: Implications for Dissociative PTSD Patients

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Lilac Lev-Ari, Shmuel Hirschmann

The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) elicits the internalization of an external stimulus. To date, the RHI has been used to better understand body ownership in healthy controls and in specific pathologies, but has not yet been assessed in dissociative PTSD (d-PTSD) patients. Moreover, most studies having utilized a one trial experimental paradigm, did not follow the learning process of the RHI. The aim of this study was to assess the learning process of the RHI in d-PTSD patients, as compared to schizophrenia patients (SZs) and to healthy controls. Nineteen d-PTSD patients, 30 schizophrenia inpatients and 30 healthy controls underwent five different trials of the RHI over a two-week period. Significant interactions between group and trial emerged for start time an... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8947.1000161

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