Body and peripersonal space representations in chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor deficits.

ABSTRACT: The continuous stream of multisensory information between the brain and the body during body-environment interactions is crucial to maintain the updated representation of the perceived dimensions of body parts (metric body representation) and the space around the body (the peripersonal space). Such flow of multisensory signals is often limited by upper limb sensorimotor deficits after stroke. This would suggest the presence of systematic distortions of metric body representation and peripersonal space in chronic patients with persistent sensorimotor deficits. We assessed metric body representation and peripersonal space representation in 60 chronic stroke patients with unilateral upper limb motor deficits, in comparison with age-matched healthy controls. We also administered a questionnair

SUBMITTER: Bassolino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9356734 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature