BODILY SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: ANOSOGNOSIA, ASOMATOGNOSIA AND ANOREXIA ... on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology.SkiptomaincontentYouarehereHomeArchiveVolume86, Issue9BODILYSENSEANDSENSIBILITY:ANOSOGNOSIA,ASOMATOGNOSIAANDANOREXIAEmailalertsArticleTextArticlemenuArticleTextArticleinfoCitationToolsShareRapidResponsesArticlemetricsAlertsPDFBNAAbstractsPRESENTATIONABSTRACTS–DAY2P005BODILYSENSEANDSENSIBILITY:ANOSOGNOSIA,ASOMATOGNOSIAANDANOREXIAAbstractAikaterini(Katerina)FotopoulouPhD,isaReaderinPsychodynamicNeuroscienceatthePsychologyandLanguageSciencesDivision,UniversityCollegeLondon.FundedbyaStartingInvestigatorGrantfromtheEuropeanResearchCouncilfortheproject‘BodilySelf’,sherunsKatLab,agroupofresearchersandstudentsthatconductstudiesontopicsanddisordersthatlieatthebordersbetweenneurologyandpsychology.SeehereforpublicationsandourLab'sCampaignonfurtherfundingon‘BodyImage’NeuroscientificResearch:http://www.fotopoulou.comKaterinaisalsotheDirectoroftheLondonNeuropsychoanalysisCentreandrunstheLondonNeuropsychoanalysisGroupon:‘PsychodynamicNeuroscienceandNeuropsychology’.Sheistheeditorofthevolume:Fotopoulou,A.Conway,M.A.Pfaff,D. FromtheCouchtotheLab:TrendsinPsychodynamicNeuroscience.OxfordUniversityPress,2012.SheisafoundingmemberofthenewInternationalAssociationfortheStudyofAffectiveTouch.Seewww.neuropsa.org.ukfortheinauguralcongressofthissociety.UCL,20–22March2015.Accordingtothe‘embodiedcognition’approachseveralfacetsofawarenessarecausallyrelatedtothephysicalbodyanditsproperties.Primarysensorimotorsignalsareintegratedandre-representedinvariouslevelsoftheneurocognitivehierarchytoformanumberofneurocognitivelydistinctbodilyrepresentations,includingunconsciousandconsciousfacetsofthebodilyselfsuchasbodyagency,ownershipandimage.However,theprecisemechanismsbywhichbodilysignalsareintegratedandre-mappedinthebrain,aswellastherelationbetweenbottom-upandtop-downfactorsineachofthesehierarchicallevelsremainunknown.Inthistalk,Iwilldiscussempiricalst