Disturbed Mental Imagery of Affected Body-Parts in Patients with Hysterical Conversion Paraplegia Correlates with Pathological Limbic Activity

Disturbed Mental Imagery of Affected Body-Parts in Patients with Hysterical Conversion Paraplegia Correlates with Pathological Limbic Activity

Patients with conversion disorder generally suffer from a severe neurological deficit which cannot be attributed to a structural neurological damage. In two patients with acute conversion paraplegia, investigation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed that the insular cortex, a li...

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Main Authors: Arnaud Saj, Noa Raz, Netta Levin, Tamir Ben-Hur, Shahar Arzy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
Series:Brain Sciences
Subjects:
conversion disorder
hysteria
body-processing
mental-imagery
insular cortex
anterior cingulate cortex
fMRI
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/4/2/396

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