Jevita Potheegadoo

Abstract Episodic autobiographical memory (EAM) is a building block of self-consciousness, involving recollection and subjective re-experiencing of personal past experiences. Any life episode is originally encoded by a subject within a body. This raises the possibility that memory encoding is shaped by bodily self-consciousness (BSC), a basic form of self-consciousness arising from the multisensory and sensorimotor perceptual signals from the body.

Grasping hallucinations in PD Nearly half of the patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience hallucinations, and recent studies have shown that hallucinations are associated with negative cognitive outcome and higher mortality. Now, Bernasconi et al. used a robotic method to induce hallucinations in patients with PD to study the mechanisms behind this symptom.