Brain's Body Map Remains Stable Despite Limb Loss
TL;DR
A study shows that the brain's map of the body remains unchanged even years after amputation, challenging previous beliefs about brain reorganization and providing hope for brain-computer interfaces and phantom limb pain treatment.
- In the brain, a lost limb is never really gone 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)
- The Brain’s Map of the Body Is Surprisingly Stable—Even after a Limb Is Lost Scientific American
- MRI illumines how the brain maintains 'representation' of phantom limbs AuntMinnie
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