Misoplegia and dementia: a case study

Brain-damaged patients can develop abnormal attitudes towards their deficits. Misoplegia is one such example, involving exaggerated aversion to an impaired limb, sometimes associated with hatred of paresis and verbal or physical abuse directed at the paretic limb. Few studies or reports on this diso...

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Autores principales: Santos, Diogo Haddad, Ferreira, Yngrid Dieguez, Hora, Gilvan Guersoni, de Freiras, Luiza Ramos, de Freitas, Paulo Henrique Maia, Dutra, Bruna Garbugio, Gagliardi, Rubens José
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8283884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34345373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642021dn15-020019
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Sumario:Brain-damaged patients can develop abnormal attitudes towards their deficits. Misoplegia is one such example, involving exaggerated aversion to an impaired limb, sometimes associated with hatred of paresis and verbal or physical abuse directed at the paretic limb. Few studies or reports on this disorder are available in the literature, prompting the present case report of a patient with misoplegia and vascular dementia.

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