Interoceptive awareness in focal brain-damaged patients

• Published in: Neurological sciences Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 1627 - 1631
• Main Authors: Raimo, Simona, Boccia, Maddalena, Di Vita, Antonella, Iona, Teresa, Cropano, Maria, Ammendolia, Antonio, Colao, Roberto, Iocco, Maurizio, Angelillo, Valentina, Guariglia, Cecilia, Grossi, Dario, Palermo, Liana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Awareness - physiology; Brain damage; Brain injury; Brief Communication; Dominance, Cerebral - physiology; Female; Hemispheric laterality; Humans; Information processing; Interoception - physiology; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neural networks; Neurology; Neuroradiology; Neurosciences; Neurosurgery; Perceptual Disorders - etiology; Perceptual Disorders - physiopathology; Psychiatry; Rehabilitation; Stroke - complications; Stroke - physiopathology; Brain damage; Interoception; Interoceptive awareness; Visceral feelings; Neglect

Background Interoception is the basic process enabling evaluation of one’s own internal state of body, but its alteration in brain-damaged patients has not been adequately investigated. Our study aimed to investigate awareness of visceral and somatosensorial sensations in brain-damaged patients with...