Reevaluating Brain Reorganization After Amputation
TL;DR
A recent study challenges the long-held belief that the brain's map of the body reorganizes significantly after amputation, showing instead that the brain maintains the circuits for the missing limb even years later, which has implications for future treatments like prosthetics.
- A new study challenges what we know about how amputation alters the human brain NPR
- Stable cortical body maps before and after arm amputation Nature
- Phantom limb study rewires our understanding of the brain National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov)
- Adult human cortex does not reorganize after amputation The Transmitter
- Our brain doesn't actually reorganise itself after an amputation New Scientist
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