UNASSIGNED: Historically, emotional factors, such as @entity130 or psychological conflict, have been suggested as causal factors of @entity1957 ( @entity1957 ). More recent approaches have instead stressed potential neural and @entity73 in the allocation and maintenance of attention. Yet these studies have mostly focused on how attention is allocated to exteroceptive signals about the state of the body. Given the proposed important role of interoception for emotion, the study of @entity1957 @entity1 ' ability to monitor their interoceptive signals may serve as a useful, mechanistic link between studies that aim to identify key emotional factors in @entity1957 , and those that examine specific sensorimotor or @entity73 . In the current study, we compared the interoceptive awareness of a group of individuals with @entity1957 (N=16) with a group of healthy controls (N=17). We employed a commonly used heartbeat detection task which tracks the level of concordance between one's heart rate and its subjective perception, as a proxy for interoceptive awareness more generally. We found that @entity1957 @entity1 have lower interoceptive accuracy than healthy subjects, and such reduced interoceptive accuracy was predictive of their depressive symptoms, as well as their tendency to focus on the external features of their body (self-objectification). Contary to our predictions, interoceptive accuracy was not predictive of alexithymia. These results suggest a potental trade-off between the allocation of attention to internal versus external aspects of the body in @entity1957 . More generally, they warrant further investigation of interoceptive awareness in this population, as a means to understand their emotional abnormalities at a more mechanistic level than studies concentrating on traumatic life events and related risk factors.

Interoceptive awareness in XXXX with functional neurological symptoms.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity1957 :: ('MESH:D019957', 'Disease') :: ['functional motor disorders', 'FMD'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['cognitive abnormalities'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['trauma']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
