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Self in time: imagined self-location influences neural activity related to mental time travel

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Arzy, S., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Blanke, O.·2008·Journal of Neuroscience

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Objective Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of cancer treatment impairing quality of life and function. This study explored the impact of a complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) program on taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy (TIPN). Materials and Methods Taxane-treated female patients with breast and gynecological cancer reporting TIPN-related symptoms were referred to an integrative physician, followed by patient-tailored CIM treatments (acupuncture with/without other modalities). Assessment of study outcomes at 6 to 12 weeks was conducted using the Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing, which documented free-text narratives about patients’ experience during the CIM treatment process. Content was analyzed using ATLAS.Ti software. Results Of the 125 patients treated with taxanes, 69 had been referred for CIM treatment of TIPN-associated symptoms. Multidisciplinary narrative analysis identified 2 groups of CIM-treated patients: those with an apparently moderate improvement in symptoms (n = 35) and those with either only an apparent mild or no improvement at all. For 10 patients, assessment of their response to treatment was unclear. The 2 identified groups had similar demographic, cancer-related, and quality of life–related parameters at baseline. Content analysis of patients with an apparent moderate improvement suggested a short-term (24–48 hours) effect with acupuncture treatment, either alone or combined with manual, mind-body, and anthroposophic music therapies. Symptoms showing improvement included paresthesia and numbness. Conclusions Acupuncture and other CIM therapies may result in a short-term and transitory reduction in TIPN-related symptoms.

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  • Sample size was derived from power analysis targeting an effect size of 0.6 for the present experiments.

    “Sample size was derived from power analysis of previous BSC studies [97,98] and previous studies on mental time travel [28,30]. According to these studies, our target effect size was 0.6 for the present experiments.”
  • People tend to remember better life-episodes that are distinct and personally meaningful and relate to the self or self-consciousness.

    “It has been well demonstrated that people tend to remember better those life-episodes, which are distinct and personally meaningful and, of importance for the present study, relate to the self or self-consciousness [21,24,28,30,124–126].”

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Authors
Arzy, S., Molnar-Szakacs, I., & Blanke, O.
Affiliations
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
Venue
Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2008-06-18
Volume
28
Issue
25
Pages
6502-6507
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2045561825
Cited by
110
References
57
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2.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
Keywords
mental time travel, self-localization, neuronal activity, temporal cognition, self-concept
MeSH terms
Adult, Awareness, Brain, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Imagination, Male, Memory, Self Concept, Thinking, Time Perception

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