article_snippet.sent: These are frequently reported by people in extreme physical or emotional situations, such as mountaineers and explorers, or those grieving for a lost loved one.
article_snippet.sent: These are also associated with medical conditions that affect the brain, including epilepsy, migraine, schizophrenia and cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Blanke's team began by analyzing the brains of 12 patients with neurological disorders who have reported having such a secondary representation of Blanke's team body, in other words a ghost sensation.
article_snippet.sent: Blanke said the system mimics the sensations of some patients with mental disorders or of healthy individuals under extreme circumstances.
article_snippet.sent: The study, published in Current Biology, said that 'simple sensorimotor conflicts induced, in healthy subjects, an experience that shares crucial aspects with positive, first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia'.
article_snippet.sent: Blanke says the main aim of the study is to better understand some of the symptoms of neurological or psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia.
article_snippet.sent: the study was conducted on 12 individuals with various neurological conditions such as epilepsy, stroke, migraine and tumours .
article_snippet.sent: And should there be strong manifestations in this case, one could provide feedback in a way that is now not optimized to induce such a psychotic state but to dis-regulate or to down-regulate such a state.'