Restoring tactile awareness through the rubber hand illusion in cervical spinal cord injury

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 704-708

  Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a,b   Scivoletto, Giorgio ^a   Molinari, Marco ^a   Pazzaglia, Mariella ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

body schema; mental representation; rubber hand illusion; sensory neuroplasticity; spinal cord injury rehabilitation; tactile discrimination

Indexed keywords

RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; THERAPY;

BODY SCHEMA; MENTAL REPRESENTATION; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SENSORY NEUROPLASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY REHABILITATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884581071     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968313491009     Document Type: Article

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