Microsomatoagnosia: Whole Body Schema Illusion As Part of an Epileptic Aura

Overview

Journal Acta Neurol Scand

Specialty Neurology

Date 1996 Dec 1

PMID 9017025

Citations 3

Authors

R R Leker

A Karni

Y River

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Abstract

We report a patient who presented with a whole body microsomatoagnosia as part of an epileptic aura. We postulate that this rare phenomenon argues in favor of the existence of a whole body integrative neuronal networks which mediates the bodily awareness.

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