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Project

Self-other distinction after early trauma and maltreatment: a neurobehavioural investigation
Code
01J05415
Duration
01 September 2015 → 30 June 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Clinical and counselling psychology
    • Developmental psychology and ageing
    • Human experimental psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Nursing
    • Other paramedical sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
self-other distinction trauma fMRI cognitive abuse
 
Project description
 

A recent (2014) enquête of Amnesty International reported that many Belgian women will experience some form of sexual abuse and maltreatment. The present project examines the underlying neurobiological socio-cognitive mechanisms possibly affected by such trauma using self-other distinction tasks and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We anticipate changes in self-other distinction, which bears implications for therapeutic relationships and therapeutic success.