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Impairments to body structural description (the topographical bodily map) were not assessed systematically in CRPS. A patient we encountered with severe disruption to her bodily structural description led us to study this domain further.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title><jats:p>To document aberrant body structural description in subjects with CRPS using an object assembly task.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Body Schema Study: 6 subjects with CRPS-I and six age and sex-matched healthy controls completed visual puzzles taken from WAIS-III and WAIS-R. The puzzles were either related to the human body or non-human body objects. Mann\u2013Whitney U-tests were performed to compare groups\u2019 performances.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The CRPS group received relatively lower scores compared to controls for human body objects (<jats:italic>u<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20093, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05), whereas the non-human object scoring did not reveal significant differences between groups (<jats:italic>u<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20099, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>CRPS subjects suffer from impaired body structural description, taking the form of body parts disassembly and body parts discontinuity. 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