Year: 2005
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: We present three patients with somatoparaphrenia collected along 30 years.They were seniors who had suffered an extended right-sided cerebrovascular injury in territory of the middle cerebral artery, with left sided hemiplegia, hemianesthesia and hemianopia.All of them suffered delusions believing that their left arm belonged to another family member.The fluctuations of their symptoms (somatoparaphrenia, misoplegia, personification), the association with anosodiaphoria (more than with anosognosia) and to right sided lesions are remarked.Such as in cases of altered recognition of faces or place, these patients show that in a paralysed arm's recognition two aspects are involved: perception and recognition of familiarity.
Institution: University of Chile
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2026880424