Figure 1.

Clinical Body Memory (CBM) Mechanisms. The key hypothesis discussed here is that stored bodily experiences of the past and associated emotions (blue boxes) can contribute to the development of Clinical Body Memory (CBM) mechanisms including trauma, pain, dissociation and general somatic symptoms (red box) via neuronal and cognitive mechanisms that mediate their storage and retrieval (yellow box). Experimental investigation may allow empirical access and modulation of CBMs (green box), for example, via using Virtual Reality (VR) paradigms (left bottom).