loss or absence of the ability to distinguish between heat and cold by touch.
A 53-year-old female patient presenting with impaired Thermoception on the left half of her body, from the neck down, following a small infarction of the right midlateral medulla. The chronological changes in the patient's introspection regarding impairment of thermoception and the results of detailed somatosensory tests, including thermal sense, are shown in this report.
Thorough somatosensory tests, personal descriptions of symptoms, and electrophysiological quantification of similar cases are needed to improve our understanding of the neurological separation of the sensations of pain and temperature at the medullary level 1).