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These sophisticated lines of defence could be viewed as a type of socio-homeostatic process or organism’s attempt to repair and adapt itself through the practice of cultural values and contextual-acceptance. Deeply-rooted beliefs therefore, may have a regulatory purpose and essentially teach the org...
It is worth mentioning that the BBB damage by direct viral invasion differs from that caused by cytokines. In this latter situation, the BBB involvement has more diffuse damage to affect several brain regions. In other words, the integrity of the BBB is compromised by neuroinflammation induction ...
2.3. Bodily Misperceptions Due to Neurological Damage In Alexander Lurija’s book The Man With a Shattered World, the brain-injured soldier Zasetzki also reported a wealth of changes in his own body schema: “Sometimes I sit there and suddenly feel that my head is as big as a table, at...