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New Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Brain Plasticity After Limb Loss

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New Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Brain Plasticity After Limb Loss
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New research published in Nature Neuroscience challenges long-held beliefs about brain plasticity, showing that the brain's body map remains stable even years after amputation, which has significant implications for treating phantom limb pain and developing prosthetic technologies.

Topics:healthscience#amputation#brain-map#brain-plasticity#neuroscience#phantom-limb#science
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  1. Surprising new findings force scientists to rethink decades of brain-plasticity theories  PsyPost
  2. The brain might not significantly rewire itself after limb loss  Science News
  3. Over the past few decades, neuroscience textbooks have explained that "losing part of the body also  매일경제

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