A new kind of spatial inattention associated with chronic limb pain?
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2016
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Reid, E.
Wallwork, S.B.
Harvie, D.
Chalmers, J.
Gallace, A.
Spence, C.
Moseley, L.
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Annals of Neurology, 2016; 79(4):701-704
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Pathological limb pain patients show decreased attention to some stimuli on the painful limb and increased attention to others, a paradox that has dogged the field for over a decade. We hypothesized that pathological pain involves a spatial inattention confined to bodily representations. Patients showed inattention to the painful side for: visual processing of body parts but not letters; tactile processing but not auditory; body-part bisection tasks but not line bisection tasks. We propose the new term ‘somatospatial inattention’ to describe bodily-specific spatial inattention associated with pathological limb pain.
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Copyright 2016 American Neurological Association
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