Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 1255-1265

  Sedda, Anna ^a,b   Bottini, Gabriella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BIID; Body ownership; Body representation; Limb amputation; Somatoparaphrenia

Indexed keywords

APOTEMNOPHILIA; BODY INTEGRITY IDENTITY DISORDER; CALORIC VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; GENDER DYSPHORIA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; ONSET AGE; PARALYSIS; PARAPHILIC DISORDER; PARIETAL LOBE; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SOMATIC DELUSION; SOMATOPARAPHRENIA; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; XENOMELIA;

EID: 84904043642     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S53385     Document Type: Review

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