Reply to: “1.5 Dissociation” of somatoparaphrenia for the upper limb and neglect for the lower limb following a thalamic stroke presenting as flaccid hemiparesis: rehabilitation applications and neuroscience implications

This interesting case study reports on a patient who subsequent to a right thalamic hematoma developed a left hemiparesis, left extrapersonal and personal hemineglect and somatoparaphrenia, but only for the arm not the leg. It is not specifically mentioned whether this patient had also anosognosia for her hemiplegia or if somatoparaphrenia, a disturbed sense of ownership of her arm, was dissociated from intact awareness of her motor deficit, as recently described in five patients by Invernizzi et al. (2013).