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Brain, Body, and Self Lab

@brainself.bsky.social

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We study the sense of self, body representation, and the human brain. Based at Karolinska Institutet, led by Henrik Ehrsson.

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Congratulations Dr. Sara Coppi (@saracoppi.bsky.social) on the excellent defense of your PhD thesis 'The Relationship between Nociception, Pain, and Body Ownership'!

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Mariano D'Angelo @DAngeloMariano presents a new study (in press) at this year's Karolinska Department of Neuroscience retreat.

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Brain, Body & Self lab celebrating 2025 with a traditional Swedish Christmas smorgasbord (Julbord) at Hasselbacken, Stockholm

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

In our new iScience study led by Sara Coppi, we show that during the rubber hand illusion, pain is mislocalized toward the rubber hand. This nociceptive drift reveals how pain, like other senses, is integrated into the bodily self. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40546968/

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

20 years ago, Ehrsson, Spence, & @Dick_retired published a landmark study showing how the premotor and parietal cortex drive the sense of body ownership through multisensory integration in the rubber hand illusion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Sensing oneself: don't forget the subcortex! Crucianelli, Reader & Ehrsson review the subcortical contributions to the sense of body ownership – i.e. the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Hello, we are now on BlueSky!

Illusory body-swapping. Photo Staffan Larsson. From Petkova and Ehrsson (2008).

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