U.S., March 18 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06316674) titled 'The Malleability of Body Representation in Anorexia Nervosa: the Sixth Finger Illusion' on Feb. 28.
Brief Summary: Body representation can be explored using behavioural tasks such as motor imagery tasks as well as body illusions.
In both cases, evidence from studies on healthy individuals as well as patients with lesions to the central nervous system show that body representation is not set in stone: how we imagine our bodies is a dynamic and continuously updated process, to reflect changes in our own body as well as the environment.
In anorexia nervosa the representation of the body is very different from that of healthy individ...