@article{ref1,
title="Dissociation between preserved body structural description and impaired body image following a pediatric spinal trauma",
journal="Neurocase",
year="2017",
author="Salvato, Gerardo and Peviani, Valeria and Scarano, Elisa and Scarpa, Pina and Leo, Alessandra and Redaelli, Tiziana and Spinelli, Michele and Sberna, Maurizio and Bottini, Gabriella",
volume="23",
number="2",
pages="149-153",
abstract="In adult patients, Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) may influence the mental Body Representation (BR). Currently, there is no evidence on the modulation of SCI on BR during early stages of cognitive development. Here, we investigated BR in a 3-year-old child with complete SCI. The patient was administered with a specific battery assessing different BR components. We found evidence for putative classical neuropsychological dissociation between a preserved topological map with impaired semantic knowledge of the body. This finding sheds new light on the impact of SCI on BR in childhood, as well as on the level of interdependence between BR's components..<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1355-4794",
doi="10.1080/13554794.2017.1332227",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2017.1332227"
}