Article 76PXH This neurological condition makes people deny their own limbs

This neurological condition makes people deny their own limbs

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Ellsworth Toohey
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Somatoparaphrenia is a rare delusion in which a person denies that one of their limbs, or an entire side of their body, belongs to them - even when shown direct proof. Patients don't just forget the limb is theirs; they invent an explanation for whose it actually is, sometimes elaborate enough that they'll treat the limb as if it belonged to a separate being. - Read the rest

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