Citation

Reid E, Wallwork SB, Harvie D, Chalmers KJ, Gallace A, Spence C, Moseley GL. Ann. Neurol. 2016; 79(4): 701-704.

Affiliation

Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ana.24616

PMID

26878698

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; 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. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Language: en