Pain and body awareness: Evidence from brain-damaged patients with delusional body ownership

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Pia, Lorenzo ^a   Garbarini, Francesca ^a   Fossataro, Carlotta ^a   Fornia, Luca ^b   Berti, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body awareness; Body ownership; Brain damaged patients; Disownership; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALIEN HAND SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DELUSIONAL BODY OWNERSHIP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84933678571     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00298     Document Type: Article

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