Pathological limb pain patients show decreased attention to some stimuli on the painful limb and increased attention to others, a paradox that has dogged the field for over a decade. We hypothesized that pathological pain involves a spatial inattention confined to bodily representations. Patients showed inattention to the painful side for visual processing of body parts but not letters, tactile processing but not auditory, and body-part bisection tasks but not line bisection tasks. We propose the new term "somatospatial inattention" to describe bodily-specific spatial inattention associated with pathological limb pain.

Reid, E., Wallwork, S., Harvie, D., Chalmers, J., Gallace, A., Spence, C., et al. (2016). A New Kind of Spatial Inattention Associated with Chronic Limb Pain?. ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY, 79(4), 701-704 [10.1002/ana.24616].

A New Kind of Spatial Inattention Associated with Chronic Limb Pain?

GALLACE, ALBERTO
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2016

Abstract

Pathological limb pain patients show decreased attention to some stimuli on the painful limb and increased attention to others, a paradox that has dogged the field for over a decade. We hypothesized that pathological pain involves a spatial inattention confined to bodily representations. Patients showed inattention to the painful side for visual processing of body parts but not letters, tactile processing but not auditory, and body-part bisection tasks but not line bisection tasks. We propose the new term "somatospatial inattention" to describe bodily-specific spatial inattention associated with pathological limb pain.
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Neglect, Chronic Pain, Attention, Neurology
English
2016
79
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701
704
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Reid, E., Wallwork, S., Harvie, D., Chalmers, J., Gallace, A., Spence, C., et al. (2016). A New Kind of Spatial Inattention Associated with Chronic Limb Pain?. ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY, 79(4), 701-704 [10.1002/ana.24616].
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