Publications

Forthcoming

Deane, G., Mago, J., Fotopoulou, A., Sacchet, M. D., Carhart-Harris, R., & Sandved-Smith, L. (2024, January 25). The computational unconscious: Adaptive narrative control, psychopathology, and subjective well-being. PsyArXiv. Link

Kirsch, L. P., Von Mohr, M., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2024, April 30). Vicarious touch: a potential substitute for social touch during touch deprivation. Link

Mauersberger, H., Springer, A., Fotopoulou, A., Blaison, C., & Hess, U. (2023) Pet Dogs Succeed Where Human Companions Fail: The Presence of Pet Dogs Reduces Pain. Authorea. Link

Fotopoulou, A., & Besharati, S. (2022). Predicting First-Person and Counterfactual Experiences of Selfhood: Insights from Anosognosia. PsyArXiv. Link

Heim, N., Bobou, M., Tanzer, M., Jenkinson, P., Steinert, C., Fotopoulou, A. (2022) Interventions for interoception in mental health disorders: A systematic review of randomised-controlled trials. OSFPreprints. Link

Saramandi, A., Crucianelli, L., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., Nisticò, V., Baiza, A., Goeta, D., … Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Belief updating about Interoception and Body Size Estimation in Anorexia Nervosa. PsyArXiv. Link

Tanzer, M., Koukoutsakis, A., Galouzidi, I., Jenkinson, P. M., Hammond, C., Banissy, M. J., & Fotopoulou, A. (2022, March 29). Touch in Psychotherapy: Experiences, desires and attitudes in a large population survey. PsyArXiv. Link 

von Mohr, M., Kirsch, L. P., Loh, J. K., & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). Affective Touch Dimensions: From Sensitivity to Metacognition. bioRxiv, 669259 and in revision. Link

2024

Besharati, S., Jenkinson, P. M., Kopelman, M., Solms, M., Bulgarelli, C., Pacella, V., Moro, V., & Fotopoulou, A. (2024). What I think she thinks about my body: Social inferences about disability-related content in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 00, 1-22. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Jenkinson, P. M., Fotopoulou, A., Ibanez, A., & Rossell, S. (2023). Interoception in anxiety, depression and psychosis: a review of current knowledge and recommendations for future research. eClinicalMedicina, 73, 102673. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Jenkinson, P.M., Panagiotopoulou, E., Koukoutsakis, A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Greater Risk Taking in Cosmetic Surgery Acceptance and History: An Experimental and Computational Study. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Link

Krahé, C., Koukoutsakis, A., Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Updating beliefs about pain following advice: Trustworthiness of social advice predicts pain expectations and experience. Cognition, 246, 105756. Link

Krahe, C., Fotopoulou, A., Hammond, C., Banissy, M. J., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., & Jenkinson, P. M. (2024). The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch. European Journal of Social Psychology, 1-19. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Moro, V., Scandola, M., Gobbetto, V., Bertagnoli, S., Beccherle, M., Besharati, S., Ponzo, S., Fotopoulou, A. & Jenkinson, P. M. (2024). Examining the role of self-reported somatosensory sensations in body (dis)ownership: A scoping review and empirical study of patients with a disturbed sense of limb ownership. Neuropsychologia, 194, 108776. Link

Saramandi, A., Au, Y. K., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., Zheng, C. Y., Godwin, A., Bianchi-Berthouze, N., …Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Tactile Emoticons: Conveying Social Emotions and Intentions with Manual and Robotic Tactile Feedback During Social Media Communications. PLOS ONE, 19, e0304417. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Saramandi, A., Crucianelli, L., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., Nisticò, V., Mavromara, L., Goeta, D., … Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Updating Prospective, Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Cardiac Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa: An Experimental and Computational Study. Computational Psychiatry, 8, 92-118. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

2023

Bobou, M., Heim, N., Tanzer, M., Jenkinson, P. M., Steinert, C., & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). Psychological interventions for interoception in mental health disorders: A systematic review of randomized-controlled trials. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Link

Jenkinson, P. M., Koukoutsakis, A., Panagiotopoulou, E., Vagnoni, E., Demartini, B., Nistico, V., Gambini, O., Christakou, A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). Body appearance values modulate risk aversion in eating restriction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 3418-3432. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Kirsch, L. P., Tanzer, M., Filippetti, M. L., Von Mohr, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). Mothers are more egocentric towards their own child’s bodily feelings. Communications Psychology, 1, 42. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Moro, V., Pacella, V., Scandola, M., Besharati, S., Rossato, E., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). A fronto-insular-parietal network for the sense of body ownership. Cerebral Cortex33(3), 512-522. Link

von Mohr, M., Silva, P., Vagnoni, E., Bracher, A., Bertoni, T., Serino, A., Banissy, M. J., Jenkinson, P. M. & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). My Social Comfort Zone: Attachment Anxiety Shapes Peripersonal and Interpersonal Space. iScience, 26(2), 105955. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

2022

Bertagnoli, S., Pacella, V., Rossato, E., Jenkinson, P.M., Fotopoulou, A., Scandola, M., & Moro, V. (2022). Disconnections in Personal Neglect. Brain Structure and Function. Link

Preprint can be found here: Link

Besharati, S., Jenkinson, P.M., Kopelman, M., Solms, M., Moro, V. Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Awareness is in the eye of the observer: Preserved third-person awareness of deficit in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Neuropsychologia, 170, 108227. Link

Ehrsson, H.H., Fotopoulou, A., Radziun, D., Longo, M. R. & Tsakiris, M. (2022) No specific relationship between hypnotic suggestibility and the rubber hand illusion. Nature Communications, 13, 564. Link

Fotopoulou, A. (2022). 8 Integrating dimensions of interoception in neuropsychiatry Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 93:e3. Link

Fotopoulou, A., von Mohr, M., & Krahé, C. (2022). Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences43, 80–87. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Martins, D. A., Mazibuko, N., Zelaya, F., Vasilakopoulou, S., Loveridge, J., Oates, A., Maltezos, S., Mehta, M., Wastling, S., Howard, M., McAlonan, G., Murphy, D., Williams, S. C. R., Fotopoulou, A., Schuschnig, U., & Paloyelis, Y. (2022). Author Correction: Effects of route of administration on oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans. Nature Communications13, 1876. Link

Martins, D., Brodmann, K., Veronese, M., Dipasquale, O., Mazibuko, N., Schuschnig, U., Zelaya, F., Fotopoulou, A. & Paloyelis, Y. (2022). “Less is more”: A dose-response account of intranasal oxytocin pharmacodynamics in the human brain. Progress in Neurobiology, 211, 102239. Link

Palser, E. R., Lazerwitz, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience, 25, 272–279. Link

Panagiotopoulou, E., Crucianelli, L., Lemma, A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Identifying with the Beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self-other distinction. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75. Link

Price, S., Bianchi-Berthouze, N., Jewitt, C., Yiannoutsou, N., Fotopoulou, K., Dajic, S.,Virdee, J., Zhao, Y., Atkinson, D., & Brudy, F. (2022). The making of meaning through dyadic haptic affective touch. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 29, 1-42. Link 

Saini, F., Ponzo, S., Silvestrin, F., Fotopoulou, A., & David, A. S. (2022). Depersonalization disorder as a systematic downregulation of interoceptive signals. Scientific Reports12, 22123. Link

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Crucianelli, L., Zheng, R., Cheng, C., Ley-Flores, J., Borda-Más, M., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. & Fotopoulou, A. (2022) Body weight distortions in an auditory-driven body illusion in subclinical and clinical eating disorders. Scientific Reports, 12, 20031. Link

2021

Carey, M., Crucianelli, L., Preston, C., & Fotopoulou, A. F. (2021). The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal. Consciousness and Cognition87, 103059. Link

Ciaunica, A., Constant, A., Preissl, H., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). The First Prior: From Co-Embodiment to Co-Homeostasis in Early Life. Consciousness and Cognition, 91, 103117. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Ciaunica, A., Petreca, B., Fotopoulou, A., & Roepstorff, A. (2021). Whatever Next and Close to my Self – The Transparent Senses and the ‘Second Skin’: Implications for the Case of Depersonalisation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 613587. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Fotopoulou, A. Mentalising Allostasis: The Sense that I Should Eat (2021): Comment on: “The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure” by Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. Physics of Life Reviews 2020. Physics of Life Reviews, 36, 20-23. Link.

Jenkinson, P., KOUKOUTSAKIS, A., Panagiotopoulou, E., Vagnoni, E., Demartini, B., Nisticò, V., … Fotopoulou, A. (2020, October 9). Body appearance values modulate risk aversion in eating restriction. Link

Kirsch, L. P., Mathys, C., Papadaki, C., Talelli, P., Friston, K., Moro, V., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Updating Beliefs Beyond the Here-and-Now: The Counter-factual Self in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia. Brain Communications, 3, fcab098. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Masson, C. J., Van der Westhuizen, D., Noel, J., Prevost, A. M., van Honk, J., Fotopoulou, A., … Serino, A. (2021). Testosterone administration in women increases the size of their peripersonal space. Experimental Brain Research, 239, 1639–1649. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Mohr, M. V., Kirsch, L. P., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: Effects on psychological wellbeing, tolerating isolation and craving interpersonal touch. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 210287. Link

Preprint can be found here: BioRxiv. Link

Moro, V., Besharati, S., Scandola, M., Bertagnoli, S., Gobbetto, V., Ponzo, S., Bulgarelli, C., Fotopoulou, A., & Jenkinson, P. M. (2021). The Motor Unawareness Assessment (MUNA): A new tool for the assessment of Anosognosia for hemiplegia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology43, 91-104. Link

Neustadter, E. S., Fotopoulou, A., Steinfeld, M., & Fineberg, S. K. (2021). Mentalization and embodied selfhood in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 28(3–4), 126–157. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Palser, E. R., Galvez-Pol, A., Palmer, C. E., Hannah, R., Fotopoulou, A., Pellicano, E., & Kilner, J. M. (2021). Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism. Autism, 25, 1321-1334. Link

Palser, E. R., Glass, J., Fotopoulou, A., & Kilner, J. M. (2021). Relationship between cardiac cycle and the timing of actions during action execution and observation. Cognition, 217. Link

Preprint can be found here: BioRxiv. Link

Ricciardi, L.Nisticò, V., Andrenelli, E., Cunha, J. M., Demartini, B., Kirsch, L. P., Crucianelli, L., Yogarajah, M., Morgante, F.Fotopoulou, A., & Edwards, M. J. (2021). Exploring three levels of interoception in people with functional motor disorders. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 86, 15–18. Link

Preprint can be found here: PsyArXiv. Link

Zheng, C. Y., Wang, K.-J., Wairagkar, M., Von Mohr, M., Lintunen, E., & Fotopoulou, K. (2021). Comparing soft robotic affective touch to human and brush affective touch. 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 352–352. Link

2020

Maister, L., Fotopoulou, A., Turnbull, O., & Tsakiris, M. (2020). The erogenous mirror: intersubjective and multisensorymaps of sexual arousal in men and women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49, 2919-2933. Link

Pia, L., Fossataro, C., Burin, D., Bruno V, Spinazzola, l., Gindri P., Fotopoulou, A., Berti, A., Garbarini(2020). The anatomo-clinical picture of the pathological embodiment over someone else’s body part after stroke. Cortex, 130, 203-219. Link

De Meulemeester, C., Lowyck, B., Panagiotopoulou, E., Fotopoulou, A., & Luyten, P. (2020). Self-other distinction and borderline personality disorder features: Evidence for egocentric and altercentric bias in a self-other facial morphing task. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12, 377-388. Link

Crucianelli, L., Demartini, B., Goeta, D., Nisticò, V., Saramandi, A., Bertelli, S., Todisco, P., Gambini, O., & Fotopoulou, A. (2020). The anticipation and perception of affective touch in women with and recovered from anorexia nervosa. Neuroscience, 464, 143-155. Link

Preprint can be found here: BioRxiv. Link

Jenkinson, P. M., Papadaki, C., Besharati, S., Moro, V., Gobbetto, V., Crucianelli, L., Kirsch, L. P., Avesani, R., Ward, N. S., & Fotopoulou, A. (2020). Welcoming back my arm: Affective touch increases body ownership following right hemisphere stroke. Brain Communications, 2, fcaa034. Link

Martins, D. A., Mazibuko, N., Zelaya, F., Vasilakopoulou, S., Loveridge, J., Oates, A., Maltezos, S., Mehta, M., Wastling, S., Howard, M., McAlonan, G., Murphy, D., Williams, S. C. R., Fotopoulou, A., Schuschnig, U., & Paloyelis, Y. (2020). Effects of route of administration on oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans. Nature Communications11, 1160. Link

Author corrections can be found here: Link

Kirsch, L. P., Besharati, S., Papadaki, C., Crucianelli, L., Bertagnoli, S., Ward, N., . . .
Fotopoulou, A. (2020). Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective
touch.. eLife, 9, e47895. Link

Balchin, R., Barry, V., Bazan, A., Blechner, M. J., Clarici, A., Mosri, D. F., Fotopoulou, A., … Zellner, M. (2020). Reflections on 20 years of Neuropsychoanalysis. Neuropsychoanalysis, 21, 89-123. Link

2019

Palser, E. R., Fotopoulou, A., Pellicano, E., & Kilner, J. M. (2019). Dissociation in how core autism features relate tointeroceptive dimensions: evidence from cardiac
awareness in children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 572-582. Link

Pacella, V., Foulon, C., Jenkinson, P. M., Scandola, M., Bertagnoli, S., Avesani, R., Fotopoulou, A., Moro, V., & Thiebaut de Schotten, M. (2019). Anosognosia for hemiplegia as a tripartite disconnection syndrome. eLife, 8, e46075. Link

Ponzo, S., Kirsch, L. P., Fotopoulou, A., & Jenkinson, P. M. (2019). Vestibular modulation of multisensory integration during actual and vicarious tactile stimulation. Psychophysiology56, e13430. Link

Preprint can be foind here: BioRxiv. Link

Crucianelli, L., Paloyelis, Y., Ricciardi, L., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). Embodied Precision: Intranasal Oxytocin Modulates Multisensory Integration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience31, 592–606. Link

Crucianelli, L., Serpell, L., Paloyelis, Y., Ricciardi, L., Robinson, P., Jenkinson, P., & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). The effect of intranasal oxytocin on the perception of affective touch and multisensory integration in anorexia nervosa: protocol for a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study. BMJ Open9, e024913. Link

Filippetti, M. L., Kirsch, L. P., Crucianelli, L., & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). Affective certainty and congruency of touch modulate the experience of the rubber hand illusion. Scientific Reports9, 2635. Link

Carey, M., Crucianelli, L., Preston, C., & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). The Effect of Visual Capture Towards Subjective Embodiment Within the Full Body Illusion. Scientific Reports9, 2889. Link

2018

Palser, E. R., Palmer, C. E., Galvez-Pol, A., Hannah, R., Fotopoulou, A., & Kilner, J. M. (2018). Alexithymia mediates the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and anxiety. PloS one13(9), e0203212 (link)

Crucianelli, L., Wheatley, L., Filippetti, M. L., Jenkinson, P. M., Kirk, E., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 47–56. Link

Crucianelli, L., Paloyelis, Y., Ricciardi, L., Jenkinson, P., Fotopoulou, A. (2018). Embodied precision: Intranasal oxytocin modulates multisensory integration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-15. (link)

Carey, M., Crucianelli, L., Preston, C., Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The effect of visual capture towards subjective embodiment within the full body illusion. bioRxiv, 397943 (link)

Crucianelli, L., Krahé, C., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The interoceptive ingredients of body ownership: Affective touch and interoceptive sensitivity in the Rubber Hand Illusion. Cortex, 104, 180-192. (link)

Crucianelli, L., Paloyelis, Y., Ricciardi, L., Jenkinson, P., Fotopoulou, A. (2018). Embodied precision: Intranasal oxytocin modulates multisensory integration. bioRxiv, 361261. (link)

Filippetti, ML, Kirsch, L., Crucianelli, L., Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The emotional glue of the senses: Affective certainty and Congruency in the Rubber Hand Illusion. bioRxiv, 401422 (link)

Krahé, C., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). Psychological and neurobiological processes in coping with pain: The role of social interactions. In P. Murphy (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Psychobiology (pp. 91-110). Routledge.

Krahé, C.*, von Mohr, M.*, Gentsch, A., Guy, L., Vari, C., Nolte, T., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). Sensitivity to CT-optimal, Affective Touch Depends on Adult Attachment Style. Scientific reports8(1), 14544. (link)

Palser, E.R., Fotopoulou, A., & Kilner, J.M. (2018) Altering movement parameters disrupts metacognitive accuracy. Consciousness and Cognition, 57: 33-40. (link)

Palser, E. R., Fotopoulou, A., Pellicano, E., & Kilner, J. M. (2018). The link between interoceptive processing and anxiety in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: extending adult findings into a developmental sample. Biological Psychology, 136, 13-21. (link)

Panagiotopoulou E, Filippetti ML, Gentsch A, Fotopoulou A (2018) Dissociable sources of erogeneity in social touch: Imagining and perceiving C-Tactile optimal touch in erogenous zones. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0203039. (link)

Ponzo, S., Kirsch, L. P., Fotopoulou, A., & Jenkinson, P. M. (2018). Balancing body ownership: Visual capture of proprioception and affectivity during vestibular stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 117, 311-321.(link)

von Mohr, M., Crowley, M. J., Walthall, J., Mayes, L. C., Pelphrey, K. A., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2018). EEG captures affective touch: CT-optimal touch and neural oscillations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. (link)

von Mohr Ballina, MFotopoulou, A(2018) The Cutaneous Borders of Interoception: Active and Social Inference on Pain and Pleasure on The Skin. In: Tsakiris, M and De Preester, H, (eds.) The Interoceptive Mind: From homeostasis to awareness. Oxford University Press: UK. (link)

von Mohr, M., Krahé, C., Beck, B., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The social buffering of pain by affective touch: a laser-evoked potential study in romantic couples. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13, 1121-1130. (link)

2017

Borhani, K., Làdavas, E., Fotopoulou, A., & Haggard, P. (2017). “Lacking warmth”: Alexithymia trait is related to warm-specific thermal somatosensory processing. Biological psychology. (link)

Fotopoulou, A. & Tsakiris, M. (2017). Mentalising Homeostasis; The Social Origins of Interoceptive Inference: replies to commentaries. The Neuropsychoanalysis Journal, 1-26. (link)

Kirsch, L. P., Krahé, C., Blom, N., Crucianelli, L., Moro, V., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2017). Reading the mind in the touch: Neurophysiological specificity in the communication of emotions by touch. Neuropsychologia. (link)

Martinaud, O., Besharati, S., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2017). Ownership illusions in patients with body delusions: Different neural profiles of visual capture and disownership. Cortex. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2016.09.025 (link)

von Mohr, M., Kirsch, L.P., & Fotopoulou, A. (2017) The soothing function of touch: affective touch reduces feelings of social exclusion. Scientific Reports, 7: 13516 (link)

Panagiotopoulou, E., Filippetti, M.L., Tsakiris, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2017) Affective Touch Enhances Self-Face Recognition During Multisensory Integration. Scientific Reports, 7: 12883 (link)

2016

Ainley, V, Apps, M. A. J., Fotopoulou,A., Tsakiris, M. (2016). ‘Bodily precision’: A predictive coding account of individual differences in interoceptive accuracy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. link

Besharati, S., Forkel, S.J., Kopelman, M., Solms, M., Jenkinson, Fotopoulou,A. (2016). Mentalising the Body: Spatial and Social Cognition in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia, Brain, 139(Pt 3):971-85. link

Crucianelli, L., Cardi, V., Treasure, J., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2016). The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 239, 72-78. link

Demartini,B., Ricciardi,L.  Crucianelli, L., Fotopoulou, A., Edwards,M.J. (2016). Sense of body ownership in patients affected by functional motor symptoms (conversion disorder). Consciousness and Cognition, 39:70-6 link

Krahé, C., Drabek, M. M., Paloyelis, Y., & Fotopoulou, A. (2016). Affective touch and attachment style modulate pain: A laser-evoked potentials study. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371, 20160009. pdf

Moro, V. Pernigo, S., Tsakiris, M., Avesani, R., Edelstyn, NM., Jenkinson, P.M., Fotopoulou, A. (2016). Motor versus body awareness: Voxel-based lesion analysis in anosognosia for hemiplegia and somatoparaphrenia following right hemisphere stroke. Cortex. link

Paloyelis, Y., Doyle, O. M., Zelaya, F. O., Maltezos, S., Williams, S. C., Fotopoulou, A., & Howard, M. A. (2016). A Spatiotemporal Profile of In Vivo Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Following Intranasal Oxytocin in Humans. Biol Psychiatry, 79 (8), 693-705. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.10.005 link

Paloyelis, Y., Krahé, C., Maltezos, S., Williams, S. C., Howard, M. A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2016). The analgesic effect of oxytocin in humans: A double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study using laser-evoked potentials. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 28, 1-10. link

Ricciardi, L., Demartini, B., Crucianelli, L., Krahé, C., Edwards, M. J., & Fotopoulou, A. (2016). Interoceptive awareness in patients with functional neurological symptoms. Biological Psychology, 113, 68-74. [Epub ahead of print]

2015

Fotopoulou, A. (2015). The virtual bodily self: Mentalisation of the body as revealed in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Consciousness and Cognition, 33; 500–510 (pdf).

Gentsch, A., Pangiotopoulou, E., & Fotopoulou, A. (2015). Active interpersonal touch gives rise to the social softness illusion. Current Biology, 25, 1-6. (pdf).

Krahé, C., Paloyelis, Y., Condon, H., Jenkinson, P. M., Williams, S. C. R., & Fotopoulou, A. (2015). Attachment style moderates partner presence effects on pain: A laser-evoked potentials study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1030-1037. (link)

Paloyelis, Y., Krahé, C., Howard, M., Williams, S., & Fotopoulou, A. (2015). The analgesic effect of oxytocin in humans: A double-blinded placebocontrolled cross-over study using laser-evoked potentials. WCNH Special Issue, Journal of Neuroendocrinology.

Ricciardi, L., Demartini, B., Crucianelli, L., Krahé, C., Edwards, M.J., & Fotopoulou, A. (2015). Interoceptive awareness in patients with functional neurological symptoms. Biological Psychology.

Ricciardi, L., Demartini B., Fotopoulou A. & Edwards. M.J. (2015). Alexithymia in Neurological Disease: A Review. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. (link).

Yovell, Y., Solms, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2015). The case for neuropsychoanalysis: Why a dialogue with neuroscience is necessary but not sufficient for psychoanalysis. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. (pdf).

2014

Besharati, S., Kopelman, M., Avesani, R., Moro, V., & Fotopoulou, A. (2014). Another perspective on anosognosia: Self-observation in video replay improves motor awareness. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-34. (link)

Besharati, S., Forkel, S. J., Kopelman, M., Solms, M., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2014). The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: Behavioural and lesion evidence. Cortex61, 127-140. (pdf)

Cole, S. N., Fotopoulou, A., Oddy, M., & Moulin, C. J. (2014). Implausible future events in a confabulating patient with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm. Neurocase20, 208-224. (link)

Decety, J., & Fotopoulou, A. (2014). Why empathy has a beneficial impact on others in medicine: Unifying theories. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience8, 457. (link)

Forkel, S. J. (2014). Heinrich Sachs (1863–1928). Journal of Neurology, 1-3. (link)

Forkel, S. J., Mahmood, S., Vergani, F., & Catani, M. (2014). The white matter of the human cerebrum: Part I The occipital lobe by Heinrich Sachs. Cortex. (link)

Forkel, S. J., de Schotten, M. T., Dell’Acqua, F., Kalra, L., Murphy, D. G., Williams, S. C., & Catani, M. (2014). Anatomical predictors of aphasia recovery: a tractography study of bilateral perisylvian language networks. Brain137, 2027-2039. (link)

Gentsch, A., & Synofzik, M. (2014). Affective coding: the emotional dimension of agency. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience8, 608. (link)

Hurter, S., Paloyelis, Y., Williams, A. C. D. C., & Fotopoulou, A. (2014). Partners’ empathy increases pain ratings: effects of perceived empathy and attachment style on pain report and display. The Journal of Pain15, 934-944. (link)

Krahé, C., Paloyelis, Y., Sambo, C. F., & Fotopoulou, A. (2014). I like it when my partner holds my hand: development of the Responses and Attitudes to Support during Pain questionnaire (RASP). Frontiers in Psychology5, 1027. (link)

Moro, V., Scandola, M., Bulgarelli, C., Avesani, R., & Fotopoulou, A. (2014). Error-based training and emergent awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, (ahead-of-print), 1-24. (link)

Paloyelis, Y., Doyle, O. M., Zelaya, F. O., Maltezos, S., Williams, S. C., Fotopoulou, A., & Howard, M. A. (2014). A Spatiotemporal Profile of In Vivo Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Following Intranasal Oxytocin in Humans. Biological Psychiatry. (link)

Rossiter, H. E., Borrelli, M. R., Borchert, R. J., Bradbury, D., & Ward, N. S. (2014). Cortical Mechanisms of Mirror Therapy After Stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair,1545968314554622  (link)

Turnbull, O. H., Fotopoulou, A., & Solms, M. (2014). Anosognosia as motivated unawareness: The ‘defence’ hypothesis revisited. Cortex61, 18-29. (link)

Vergani, F., Mahmood, S., Morris, C. M., Mitchell, P., & Forkel, S. J. (2014). Intralobar fibres of the occipital lobe: A post mortem dissection study. Cortex. (link)

2013

Besharati, S., & Foster, D. (2013). Understanding Informal Segregation: Racial and Spatial Identities among the Indian Minority of Mokopane. Diversities,15(2). (pdf)

Crucianelli, L., Metcalf, N. K., Fotopoulou, A. K., & Jenkinson, P. M. (2013). Bodily pleasure matters: velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion. Frontiers in Psychology4, 703. (link)

Edwards, M. J., Fotopoulou, A., & Pareés, I. (2013). Neurobiology of functional (psychogenic) movement disorders. Current Opinion in Neurology26, 442-447. (link)

Fotopoulou, A. (2013). Beyond the reward principle: Consciousness as precision seeking. Neuropsychoanalysis15, 33-38. (link)

Fotopoulou, A. (2014). Time to get rid of the ‘Modular’ in neuropsychology: A unified theory of anosognosia as aberrant predictive coding. Journal of Neuropsychology8, 1-19. (link)

Jenkinson, P. M., Haggard, P., Ferreira, N. C., & Fotopoulou, A. (2013). Body ownership and attention in the mirror: Insights from somatoparaphrenia and the rubber hand illusion. Neuropsychologia51, 1453-1462. (link)

Krahé, C., Springer, A., Weinman, J. A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2013). The social modulation of pain: others as predictive signals of salience–a systematic review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience7, 386. (link)

2012

Ainley, V., Tajadura‐Jiménez, A., Fotopoulou, A., & Tsakiris, M. (2012). Looking into myself: Changes in interoceptive sensitivity during mirror self‐observation. Psychophysiology49, 1672-1676. (link)

Fotopoulou, A. (2012). Illusions and delusions in anosognosia for hemiplegia: from motor predictions to prior beliefs. Brain135, 1344-1346. (link)

Parees, I., Kassavetis, P., Saifee, T. A., Sadnicka, A., Bhatia, K. P., Fotopoulou, A., & Edwards, M. J. (2012). ‘Jumping to conclusions’ bias in functional movement disorders. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, jnnp-2011. (link)

2011

Fotopoulou A, Jenkinson PM, Tsakiris M, Haggard P, Rudd A & Kopelman M. (2011) Mirror-view reverses somatoparaphrenia: Dissociation between first- and third-person perspectives on body ownership. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3946-55. (link)            

 2010

Cocchini G, Beschin N, Fotopoulou A, & Della Sala S. (2010). Explicit and implicit anosognosia for upper limb motor impairment. Neuropsychologia, 48,1489-94. (link)

Fotopoulou, A. (2010). The affective neuropsychology of confabulation and delusion. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry15, 38-63. (link)

Fotopoulou, A., Pernigo, S., Maeda, R., Rudd, A., & Kopelman, M. A. (2010). Implicit awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: unconscious interference without conscious re-representation. Brain133, 3564-3577. (link)

Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2010). Motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: experiments at last!. Experimental brain research204, 295-304. (link)

Sambo, C. F., Howard, M., Kopelman, M., Williams, S., & Fotopoulou, A. (2010). Knowing you care: effects of perceived empathy and attachment style on pain perception. Pain151, 687-693. (link)

Tsakiris E, Carpenter L, Dafydd J, & Fotopoulou A. (2010). Hands only illusion: multisensory integration elicits sense of ownership for body parts but not for non-corporeal objects.

Experimental Brain Research, 204, 343-352. (link)

2009

Cocchini, G., Beschin, N., Cameron, A., Fotopoulou, A., & Della Sala, S. (2009). Anosognosia for motor impairment following left hemisphere damage. Neuropsychology, 23, 223-30. (link)

Fotopoulou, A., Rudd, A., & Kopelman, M. (2009). Self-observation reinstates motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Neuropsychologia, 47, 5.1256-1260. (link)

2008

Fotopoulou, A. (2008). False-selves in neuropsychological rehabilitation: the challenge of confabulation.  Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 18, 541 – 565. (link)

Fotopoulou A, Conway MA, Solms M, Birchall D. & Tyrer S. (2008). Positive emotional biases in confabulation: an experimental study. Cortex, 44, 764-772.

Fotopoulou A, Conway MA, Solms M, Kopelman M & Tyrer S. (2008). Self-serving confabulation in prose recall. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1429-1441. (link)

Fotopoulou A, Tsakiris M & Haggard P, Rudd A & Kopelman M. (2008). The role of motor intention in motor awareness: An experimental study on anosognosia for hemiplegia, Brain, 131, 3432-42. (link)

Tsakiris M, & Fotopoulou A. (2008). Is my body the sum of online and offline body representations? Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1317-20.

2007

Fotopoulou A, Conway MA, Birchall D, Griffiths P & Tyrer S.  (2007). Confabulation: revising the motivational hypothesis. Neurocase, 13, 6-15.

Fotopoulou A, Conway MA, & Solms M. (2007). Confabulation: motivated reality monitoring. Neuropsychologia 45, 2180-90. (link)

Nardone  IB, Ward R, Fotopoulou A, Turnbull, O.E. (2007) Attention and emotion in anosognosia: Evidence of implicit awareness.  Neurocase, 13, 438 – 445. (link)

2004

Fotopoulou A, & Conway MA (2004). Confabulation Pleasant and Unpleasant. Neuropsychoanalysis 6, 26-33. (link)

Fotopoulou A, Solms M & Turnbull O. (2004). Wishful Reality Distortions in Confabulation: A Case Study. Neuropsychologia, 42, 6: 727-744. (link)

 

Books

E, Palser. (2015). Katlab Body Image Campaign Research Digest(epub) (pdf) (kindle)

Fotopoulou A, Conway M & Pfaff D. (2012) From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

2022

Jenkinson, P. M., Moro, V. & Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Disorders of body ownership. In Alsmith, A. J. T. & Longo, M. R (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, Routledge. Link

2014

Besharati, S., Fotopoulou, A. & Kopelman, M. (2014). What is it like to be confabulating? In Mishara, AL, Kranjec, A., Corlett, P., Fletcher, P. Schwartz, M.A. (Eds) Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry, How Patient Experience Bridges Clinic with Clinical Neuroscience. New York, Springer.

Fletcher, P., & Fotopoulou, A. (in press). Abnormalities of agency. In P. Haggard & B. Eitam (Eds.), Human Agency: Functions and Mechanisms. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gentsch, A., Crucianelli, L., Jenkinson, P., Fotopoulou, A. (under review). The Touched Self: Affective Touch and Body Awareness in Health and Disease. In H. Olausson, J. Wessberg, I. Morrison, F. McGlone (Eds.), Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents. Springer.

Gentsch, A. & Schütz-Bosbach, S. (2014). Agency and Outcome Prediction. In P. Haggard & B. Eitam (Eds.), Human Agency: Functions and Mechanisms. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kopelman MK, Bajo A, Fotopoulou A. Confabulation. (in press). Memory deficits and neuroscientific aspects. Eds (section Editor Sergio Della Sala) in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences Ed. James Wright.

2013

Besharati S, Fotopoulou A, & Kopelman MK. (2013) The Neuroscience and Phenomenology of Confabulation and Anosognosia. In (Aaron Mishara, Phil Corlett, Paul Fletcher, and Michael Schwartz, Eds) Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry: Bridging Clinic with Clinical Neuroscience”. In press.

Tsakiris M & Fotopoulou A. (2013). Form the fact to the sense of agency. In T. Vierkant (Ed.) Decomposing the Will. Oxford: University Press.

2012

Fotopoulou A. (2012). Towards Psychodynamic Neuroscience. In  A. Fotopoulou, M. Conway, & D. Pfaff. (Eds.) From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

Fotopoulou A. (2012). Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Is there a Common Language? In  A. Fotopoulou, M. Conway, & D. Pfaff. (Eds.) From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience.

Fotopoulou A. (2012). The history and progress of Neuropsychoanalysis. In  A. Fotopoulou, M. Conway, & D. Pfaff. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

2010

Fotopoulou A. (2010). The Affective Neuropsychology of Confabulation and Delusion. R. Langdon & M. Turner (Eds.) Confabulation and Delusion, Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science, NY: Psychology Press. pp. 38-63.

2009

Fotopoulou A. (2009). Disentangling The Motivational Theories of Confabulation. In Histein, W. (Ed). Confabulation: Views From Neurology, Psychiatry, and Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

1999

Fotopoulou A. (1999). A Critical Appraisal of Client-Centred Therapy Approaches. In:  G. Potamianos (ed.), Personality Theories: A Critical Appraisal, Athens:  Ellinika Grammata, 1999, 2000, 2001.

Other Publications

Fotopoulou A, Jenkinson P. (2010). Unawareness of Deficit in Acute Stroke: Neuropsychological Therapy Matters. Stroke Matters, 9, p. 8-9. (link)

Jenkinson P, Fotopoulou A. (2010). So you think you can dance? Insights from Studies on Motor Awareness. The Psychologist, 23(10: 810-813.

Fotopoulou A. (2009). Review of “The Confabulating Mind: how the brain creates reality”, by Armin Schnider, Oxford University Press. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 194, 97-98.

Fotopoulou A. (2005). Review of William Hirstein (2005) Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 76, 1042.

Fotopoulou A. (2004). Memory & Emotions: Lessons from Confabulation. Scientific American, 7, 2 (Greek Ed).

Presented Papers and Posters

2012

A. Fotopoulou. December. Cape Town, South Africa –University of Cape Town.  ‘Mirrors of the Self Experiments at the interface between neuropsychology and social neuroscience’. Departmental Lecture. Host: Mark Solms

A. Fotopoulou. December. Bloemfontein, South Africa – University of the Free State. Engaging the Other; International Conference.‘The Social Mentalisation of the Body’. Keynote Lecture.  Host: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.

A. Fotopoulou. November. Verona, Italy. University of Verona. La complessità in riabilitazione. Complexity in Rehabilitation. « Paralizzato solo ai tuoi occhi: Riabilitare gli errori e le previsioni nell’anosognosia per emiplegia> Paralysed only in your Eyes: Rehabilitating Errors and Predictions in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia”. Keynote Lecture. Host: Valentina Moro.

A. Fotopoulou. October. Berlin, Germany. ‘Experimental Entanglements in Cognitive Neuroscience’ Volkswagen Foundation Workshop. “Can the presence of an observer be simulated by fMRI designs?”. Invited talk. Hosts:

A. Fotopoulou. October. Paris, France. ‘Understanding the body we will never know’.  Volkswagen Foundation Workshop. Participant. Hosts:

A. Fotopoulou. September. London, UK. Relate Organisation. ‘How relationships shape the brain: perspectives from neuroscience’. Meeting talk. Hosts:

A. Fotopoulou. July. Tubingen, Germany. University of Tubinger. ‘Anosognosia: Anatomy, Experiments and the Dynamic Mind’. Departmental talk.  Hosts: Otto Karnath & Julia Suchan

A. Fotopoulou. July. Leeds, UK. National Institute for Health Research. Invited Research Fellowship Presentation.

A. Fotopoulou. June. Brussels, Belgium. European Research Council. Invited Starting Investigator Award Presentation.

A. Fotopoulou. June. Athens, Greece. Eugeneidion Foundation. 12th International Neuropsychoanalysis Conference, Invited Symposium Organiser: ‘Towards a Second-Person Psychodynamic Neuroscience and presenter Empathy Succeeds Where Love Fails: Pain Modulation by Attachment and Perceived Empathy by One’s Partner’.

A. Fotopoulou. March.London, UK. Institute of Psychiatry. ‘I’m paralysed only in your eyes. The clinico-anatomical heterogeneity of post-stroke anosognosia and its treatment’.  Invited lecture in ‘Clinical Neuroanatomy Lecture Series. Hosts: Marco Catani & Stephanie Forkel

A. Fotopoulou. February. Geneva, Switzerland. University of Geneva. ‘Delusions of Body Awareness Following Stroke: From Experiments to Restoration of Function’. Invited lecture in ‘Brain and Cognition Series’. Host: Patrick Vuilleumier

Selected Keynotes

(of more than 70 UK and international presentations & invited lectures)

2016, London. UK. International Neuropsychology Society Mid-Year Congress. Invited Early Career Award Lecture. ‘Awareness of the Body Following Stroke; From the Bedside to the Lab and back again’

2016, Paris, France: Brain and Spine Institute, La Salpêtrière. Invited International Lecture: ‘Bodily Egocentricity and Allocentricity’ in Neurology: Anosognosia and Asomatognosia.

2016, Milano, Italy: University of Milan. Invited International Lecture on Neurophilosophy Seminars.

2016, Chicago, US. 12th Annual Congress of the International NPSA Society. Keynote Symposium.

2016, Verona, Italy. University of Verona, Psychology and Education Department: Invited Lecture.

2016, Bressanone, Italy. 35th European Workshop On Cognitive Neuropsychology: Invited Speaker at Keynote Symposium.

2016, Aegina, Greece. 4th European Summer School on Social Embodied Cognition: Invited Lecturer

2016: Invited Departmental Seminars in the following UK Universities: Bangor; City; UCL; Essex

2015 Edinburg, UK. Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Invited Special Series Lecture: Bodily Egocentricity and Allocentricity. 

2015, London, UK. Festival of the Unconscious, Freud Museum. Invited Keynote Lecture.

2015 Brussels, Belgium.  Invited ‘EU Research Testimonial’ to Cabinet of Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation and the Leadership of the European Research Council.

2015 Lisbon, Portugal.  University Institute of Psychology (ISPA, the oldest school of Psychology in Portugal) Annual Meeting. Invited to give one of the three keynote lectures on ‘The Bodily Self’.

2014 Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum, Meeting of New Champions. Invited to represent the European Research Council Grantees; ‘The Bodily Self’. One of the four ERC speakers, selected out of 400 candidates.

2014 Rome, Italy. International Conference on the ‘Neuropsychology of body representation’, Invited Keynote Lecture: Inferring the self: neurological aberration of interceptive inference and social cognition.

2014 Heidelberg , Germany. International Conference of Marie Curie Network TESIS (Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity) on Enacting Culture: Embodiment, Interaction and the Development of Human Culture. Invited Keynote Lecture on Neuropsychology of Self-Awareness.

2013 New York, US. Arnold Pfeffer Center. The “body-in-relation” self: psychodynamic and neural mechanisms of joined salience. Invited Public Lecture.

Selected Symposia

2016 Copenhagen, Denmark. 10th Forum of Neuroscience, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies. Presentation in accepted symposium.

2015, Manchester, UK. BIRT National Conference on Psychological Rehabilitation. Invited Symposium Presenter.

2015 Tampere, Finland: 5th Conference of the European Societies of Neuropsychology and the 12th Nordic Meeting in Neuropsychology. Presentation in accepted symposium.

2011 Merano, Italy. 1st European Neurorehabilitation Congress: ‘Anosognosia for Hemiplegia: From Treatments to Mechanisms’. Invited Main Symposium talk.

2011 York, UK: 3rd International Conference on Memory (ICOM-III). ‘Neurological Confabulation: When Memory Inhibition Fails: Invited symposium and presentation.

2010 Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3rd Meeting of the European Neuropsychological Societies. Invited talk in a symposium: ‘Theatres of the Body’.

2007 Toronto, Canada.  Memory Disorders Research Society Meeting. Symposium Organiser and Presenter: “The Recollective Experience of Confabulation”

2006 Sydney, AU. 2nd International Conference on Memory (ICOM II). Symposium Organiser and Presenter: ‘Confabulation & Delusion’

2005, Dublin, Ireland. International Neuropsychological Society and British Neuropsychological Society Joint Mid-Year Meeting. ‘Motivated Confabulations in Neurorehabilitation; From Research to Clinical Practice’.

Selected Public Engagement Activities and Media Coverage

Selected Interviews: BBC radio; ABC All in the Mind, National Radio (Australia); The Scientific 23; 23 questions submitted by teenagers to scientists (http://thescientific23.com) funded by the Royal Society and hosted by SJ Blakemore.

Selected Activities: The Self in the Brain, St. Paul’s School, Medical Society Lunch Lecture, 2016; Key Contributor to Wellcome Trust/BNA public event on ‘Age of Anxiety’ 2016; The Royal Holloway University’s ‘Love your Body’ Campaign of the Fashion Society Experts Debate; Royal Institution 2015: Seminar Series Leader: The Neuroscience of the Self; Royal Institution, 2015: Questioning Reality. Science curator: Affective Touch Illusions; Freud Museum: The Festival of the Unconscious, 2015 – Scientific Consultant and Presenter: Self-deception.

Selected Research Features in: The New Scientist; BBC News; BBC radio; the Guardian; the Independent; the Times; Scientific American, Prospect Magazine, BPS Research Digest, The Psychologist, British Neuroscience Association Bulletin, PopSc.com, Psychologytoday.com, in.news.yahoo.com, News-medical.net, psychcentral.com, sciencenewsline.com