Vestibular stimulation does not diminish the desire for amputation

Cortex

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a,b   Hilti, Leonie ^a   Palla, Antonella ^a   Macauda, Gianluca ^a   Brugger, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amputation desire; Body identity integrity disorder (BIID); Caloric vestibular stimulation; Xenomelia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898823052     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.004     Document Type: Letter

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