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Human Studies


2020 Dec 24


Cortex


136

Ignoring space around a painful limb? No evidence for a body-related visuospatial attention bias in complex regional pain syndrome.

Authors

Ten Brink AF, Halicka M, Vittersø AD, Keogh E, Bultitude JH
Cortex. 2020 Dec 24; 136:89-108.
PMID: 33494023.

Abstract

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a disorder of severe chronic pain in one or more limb(s). People with CRPS report unusual perceptions of the painful limb suggesting altered body representations, as well as difficulty attending to their affected limb (i.e., a 'neglect-like' attention bias). Altered body representations and attention in CRPS might be related, however, existing evidence is unclear. We hypothesized that if there were a body-related visuospatial attention bias in CRPS, then any attention bias away from the affected side should be larger for or limited to circumstances when the (impaired) body representation is involved in the task versus when this is not the case.