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By: admin

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04:34 +0000

We wonder the same thing and the whole experiment was instigated on the basis of this idea. It might. We have just shown that people with CRPS do actually show some degree of neglect but not of the limb itself – rather the space in which the limb sits. See our article in press at a journal called BRAIN here.
It is too early to conclude that the disownership/neglect causes the coldness, but it seems fair to conclude that they might be related.

By: jeisea

jeisea — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:33 +0000

Does this indicate that the cold limb of people with crps could be linked to an altered perception of the body – a dis-ownership so to speak? It’s known that neglect is common. Is maybe neglect due to disowning the body part?

By: Disownership or conflict between vision and proprioception?

Disownership or conflict between vision and proprioception? — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:08:47 +0000

[...] is a great study in which the authors investigated something we discussed in our paper Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part…. We proposed that the cooling and tactile processing impairment we saw might reflect a kind of [...]