High incidence of 'synaesthesia for pain' in amputees

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3675-3678

  Fitzgibbon, Bernadette M ^a   Enticott, Peter G ^a   Rich, Anina N ^b   Giummarra, Melita J ^a   Georgiou Karistianis, Nellie ^a   Tsao, Jack W ^c   Weeks, Sharon R ^d   Bradshaw, John L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mirror systems; Phantom pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; EMPATHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHANTOM PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYNESTHESIA FOR PAIN;

AGED; AMPUTEES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77957308801     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.029     Document Type: Article

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