The role of body signals and subjective experience as panic attack triggers: a comparison among infrequent panickers, OCD and healthy subjects, poster (enviado)

LUCAS SEDEÑO, MARGHERITA MELLONI, BLAS COUTO, ADRIÁN YORIS, MARCELA VELÁSQUEZ, EZEQUIEL MIKULAN, MARCELO CETKOVICH, LILIANA TRAIBER, PABLO L. LÓPEZ, EMILLIO J. COMPTE, FERNANDO TORRENTE, RAFAEL KICHIC, AGUSTIN IBANEZ

San Diego, California

Congreso; 2013 Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting; 2013

Society for Social Neuroscience

Depersonalization Disorder (DPD) is a disorder characterized by a disruption of body self-awareness involving the symptoms of derealization, anomalous subjective recall, disembodiment, and emotional numbing. A neuroscientific approach to this disorder is to study whether there is any impairment of the representation of the bodily homeostatic state. Interoception, the perception of the physiological condition of the body, is a process related with the generation of the cortical representation of that homeostatic state. Also, interoception is related to emotional processing because subjective emotional feelings –that ‘colour’ our thoughts in response to emotive stimuli– are considered to arise from the perception of bodily physiological changes1. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are systematic differences in interoception and in emotional processing between a patient with DPD and healthy controls.