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Chronic Pain and Body Experience: Neuroscientific Basis and Implications For Treatment

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The perception of one’s own body requires the involvement of several sensory modalities. The integration of somatosensory and visual input is considered to be the prerequisite for higher-order body experience such as ownership and agency, ultimately accompanied by a sense of self. The sense of self has been shown to be altered in chronic pain patients. The extensive interactions between the senses, including nociception, might offer a powerful tool to treat chronic pain syndromes. Thus, the induction of bodily illusions and the examination of their influence on pain perception have been examined using various imaging methods. Moreover, this knowledge has been used to treat chronic pain syndromes such as phantom limb pain or regional complex pain syndrome using, for example, mirror treatment or prosthesis use. This chapter gives an overview of recent developments on body illusions and pain and provides suggestions on how they might lead to novel and effective treatments not only in neuropathic pain but for chronic pain in general.

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Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Foell, J., Flor, H. (2015). Chronic Pain and Body Experience: Neuroscientific Basis and Implications For Treatment. In: Kansaku, K., Cohen, L., Birbaumer, N. (eds) Clinical Systems Neuroscience. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55037-2_13

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