What
Who
Why
type of monothematic delusion where one suddenly denies ownership of a limb or an entire side of ones body.
People who have been through trauma and/or have suffered a stroke.
typically associated with unilateral neglect and most frequently with anosognosia for hemiplegia.
Somatoparaphrenia
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It happens when patients with a right-hemisphere stoke have damage to the band of fibers issuing from the cortex down into the spinal cord.
It can sometimes be treated by vestibular caloric stimulation (squirting warm water into the patient’s ear in a specific way).
dominant cerebral hemisphere of the brain
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When
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http://listverse.com/2008/05/09/another-10-bizarre-mental-disorders/
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/browse/show-publication?pub_id=348679&source_id=2
https://sites.google.com/site/neuroscienceofconsciousness/an-ape-with-a-soul-how-introspection-evolved/embodiment
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