Revisiting Imagery in Psychopathology: Why Mechanisms Are Important

O’Shea, Helen; Moran, Aidan

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00457

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“…In their study with 37 OCD patients, Speckens et al (2007) found that compared to the patients reporting no intrusive images (n = 7), the patients reporting intrusive images (n = 30) had more obsessivecompulsive symptoms, responsibility beliefs, and anxiety. Furthermore, the recent evidence suggests that mental imagery is able to produce powerful affective experiences similar to real-life equivalents by activating the visual cortex and related areas (Cui et al, 2007;Ganis et al, 2004;Hirsch & Holmes, 2007;Holmes & Mathews, 2005;Holmes et al, 2008;Ji et al, 2016;Mertens et al, 2020, O'Shea & Moran, 2019. Similarly, brain imaging studies of TAF suggested that visual processing may also take place in the formation of TAF responses (Lee et al, 2019;.…”

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Thought-Action Fusion and Psychopathologies: A Review of Literature

Türkarslan¹

2020

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Thought–action fusion (TAF) can be defined as the tendency to equate the thought of an action with the realization of the action. This article reviews the present literature on TAF. Many studies over thirty years have been conducted to investigate TAF and its relationship with other constructs like OCD symptoms and religiosity. From the beginning of the 1900s, several writers have elaborated on TAF-related concepts like the primitive mentality, omnipotence of thought, and magical thinking. Emanating from OCD literature, TAF was also found to be present in anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia, and eating disorders. The Thought Action Fusion Scale was developed to measure TAF beliefs, and it has been widely used ever since. Moreover, the researchers proposed several different ways of inducing TAF in laboratory settings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychoeducational interventions targeting TAF beliefs produced promising outcomes. The recent neuroscience studies on TAF suggest that precuneus, lingual gyrus, caudate nucleus, and several frontal and occipital cortex regions are activated during TAF experiences. The findings were discussed in terms of TAF’s specificity to OCD, the possible role of mental imagery in the formation of TAF, and suggestions for further research were made.

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Thought-Action Fusion and Psychopathologies: A Review of Literature

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2020

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“…MI practice is currently considered as a relevant adjuvant method to physical practice, to further improve motor skills and outcomes in healthy individuals (Guillot and Collet, 2008;Simonsmeier et al, 2020;Ladda et al, 2021) and in clinical populations (Malouin et al, 2013;Monany et al, 2022). In a recent meta-analysis, Simonsmeier et al (2020) supported the significant benefits of MI practice on motor performance and motivational and affective outcomes (see also O'Shea and Moran, 2019). Specifically, MI practice can improve motor sequencing (Gentili et al, 2010), aiming (Kim et al, 2014), motor timing (Pascual-Leone et al, 1995), strength (Lebon et al, 2010), and motor system flexibility (Guillot et al, 2010;see Ladda et al, 2021, for a review).…”

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Motor imagery training to improve language processing: What are the arguments?

Bayram

Palluel-Germain

Lebon

et al. 2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Studies showed that motor expertise was found to induce improvement in language processing. Grounded and situated approaches attributed this effect to an underlying automatic simulation of the motor experience elicited by action words, similar to motor imagery (MI), and suggest shared representations of action conceptualization. Interestingly, recent results also suggest that the mental simulation of action by MI training induces motor-system modifications and improves motor performance. Consequently, we hypothesize that, since MI training can induce motor-system modifications, it could be used to reinforce the functional connections between motor and language system, and could thus lead to improved language performance. Here, we explore these potential interactions by reviewing recent fundamental and clinical literature in the action-language and MI domains. We suggested that exploiting the link between action language and MI could open new avenues for complementary language improvement programs. We summarize the current literature to evaluate the rationale behind this novel training and to explore the mechanisms underlying MI and its impact on language performance.

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“…Es por ello por lo que los seres humanos tenemos una capacidad excepcional para simular mentalmente estímulos que no están físicamente presentes. Por ejemplo, las imágenes motoras (O'Shea y Moran, 2019;Lotze y Halsband, 2006;Decety, 1996) permiten llevar a cabo acciones mentales al mismo tiempo que se inhiben los impulsos motores (Jeannerod, 2006). Característicamente, este tipo de imágenes se acompañan de sensaciones visuales o cinestésicas subjetivas, es decir, uno cree ver o sentir el movimiento del cuerpo (Moran, Guillot, MacIntyre y Collet 2012).…”

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El Cambio De Los Patrones Corporales Relacionales en La Terapia Metacognitiva Interpersonal

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Inchausti

MacBeth³

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Pap. Psicol.

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uchas personas con trastornos de personalidad (TP) presentan importantes dificultades para adaptarse a su mundo social como consecuencia de utilizar unos patrones mentales rígidos e inflexibles para dar sentido a sus relaciones interpersonales (Inchausti et al., 2018a). En la litera-tura científica, estos patrones se han denominado esquemas interpersonales desadaptativos (Dimaggio, Montano, Popolo y Salvatore, 2015;Luborsky, 1984; Lubosrky y Crits-Christoph, 1998). El objetivo principal de este trabajo es presentar al lector los procedimientos utilizados en la terapia metacognitiva interpersonal (MIT;Dimaggio et al., 2015; para trabajar con estos esquemas de forma global a través del uso de las imágenes mentales y diversos ejercicios sensoriomotores. Con tal objetivo, el artículo se organiza de la siguiente manera. En primer lugar, se presenta la estructura básica del esquema interpersonal según los principios de MIT y

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Revisiting Imagery in Psychopathology: Why Mechanisms Are Important

Cited by 9 publications

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Thought-Action Fusion and Psychopathologies: A Review of Literature

Thought-Action Fusion and Psychopathologies: A Review of Literature

Motor imagery training to improve language processing: What are the arguments?

El Cambio De Los Patrones Corporales Relacionales en La Terapia Metacognitiva Interpersonal

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