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Body Ownership: Is That Really Your Hand Moving?

Posted on September 02, 2008

Body ownership is the feeling that your body belongs to you and is there constantly; vision, and other sensory signals, contribute to it. A sense of body ownership is often disrupted, the September 2nd Science Daily notes, in a range of different neurological, psychiatric and psychological conditions, such as after a stroke, in autism, epilepsy, anorexia, and bulimia. Body awareness and body ownership are two things that, I suspect Charlie has not always had, or had in the way that a typical child might. We had to teach him to put his hands in front of him to catch his fall and I ...

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anorexia , autism , autistic , bulimia , stroke