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

作者:Reid Emily; Wallwork Sarah B; Harvie Daniel; Chalmers K Jane; Gallace Alberto; Spence Charles; Moseley G Lorimer*
来源:Annals of Neurology, 2016, 79(4): 701-704.
DOI:10.1002/ana.24616

摘要

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. Ann Neurol 2016;79:701-704

  • 出版日期2016-4