Pain and body awareness: evidence from brain-damaged patients with delusional body ownership

Pain and body awareness: evidence from brain-damaged patients with delusional body ownership

A crucial aspect for the cognitive neuroscience of pain is the interplay between pain perception and body awareness. Here we report a novel neuropsychological condition in which right brain-damaged patients displayed a selective monothematic delusion of body ownership. Specifically, when both their...

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Main Authors: Lorenzo ePia, Francesca eGarbarini, Carlotta eFossataro, Luca eFornia, Anna Maria Berti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Pain
body ownership
Body awareness
disownership
brain-damaged patients
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00298/full

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