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 Universal Laptop Charger Power Adaptor 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 limbic-related cortex involved in body-representation and subjective emotional experience, was activated not only during attempt to move the paralytic body-parts, but also during mental imagery of their movements.In addition, mental rotation of affected body-parts was found to be disturbed, as compared to unaffected body parts or external objects.

fMRI during mental rotation of the paralytic body-part showed an activation of another limbic related region, the anterior cingulate cortex.These data suggest that Short Sleeve T-Shirts conversion paraplegia is associated with pathological activity in limbic structures involved in body representation and a deficit in mental processing of the affected body-parts.

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