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SUBMITTER: Preston C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5193143 | biostudies-other | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20161012 12
In today's Western society, concerns regarding body size and negative feelings toward one's body are all too common. However, little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying negative feelings toward the body and how they relate to body perception and eating-disorder pathology. Here, we used multisensory illusions to elicit illusory ownership of obese and slim bodies during functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results implicate the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex in ...[more]