Aikaterini Fotopoulou

This study shows that lower doses of intranasal oxytocin have maximal effects on amygdala physiology, with subregion-specific responses and no disruption of cerebrovascular reactivity.

This study shows that heartbeats are timed to movements during both action execution and observation, revealing a phasic relationship between cardiac cycles and movement timing in individuals and observers.

This study investigates tactile anhedonia in women with and recovered from Anorexia Nervosa, finding it persists as a trait and is linked to top-down anticipation rather than bottom-up interoceptive deficits.

This study compares intranasal and intravenous oxytocin administration effects on regional cerebral blood flow, showing systemic OT increases drive amygdala perfusion changes and validating intranasal targeting of specific brain regions.

This study shows that right insula damage affects the perception of pleasant touch, with posterior lesions reducing contralateral sensitivity and anterior lesions reducing ipsilateral sensitivity.

This study investigates whether affective touch can enhance body ownership in patients with right hemisphere stroke by examining its impact on limb ownership and neural correlates.

This study identifies three neural networks involved in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia using structural neuroimaging in stroke patients.

This study investigates how vestibular stimulation modulates multisensory integration during felt and vicarious tactile stimulation, showing differential effects based on the epistemic relevance of the sensory input.

This study combines CT stimulation with signal detection theory to examine affective touch discrimination and metacognition, finding better accuracy and confidence on CT-innervated skin.

This study investigates how visual observation of a mannequin body influences subjective embodiment, finding that it can induce embodiment independently of visuotactile integration.

This study investigates how intranasal oxytocin affects multisensory integration in bodily illusions, finding it enhances ownership in the rubber hand illusion and alters the size-weight illusion.

This study examines how adult attachment styles influence the perception of affective touch and interoception, finding that insecure attachment reduces pleasantness discrimination of affective touch.

This study investigates how affective congruency between visual and tactile stimuli influences the rubber hand illusion, finding that congruency enhances embodiment compared to uncertainty or incongruency.