Brain's Body Map Remains Stable After Limb Loss, Offering New Insights
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A recent study challenges the long-held belief that the brain's body map reorganizes after limb loss, showing instead that the primary somatosensory cortex remains stable even years after amputation, which could impact prosthetic development and pain treatment.
- The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost Nature
- 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)
- Phantom limb pain treatment could change thanks to brain study BBC
- Gone but not forgotten: New research shows the brain's map of the body remains unchanged after amputation Medical Xpress
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