News tagged with phantom limb
Phantom limbs learn impossible tricks
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that body images can be formed independently of external sensory inputs, and that the phantom limbs of amputees can be trained to carry out tasks that would be impossible ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Robotic Hand That Senses Touch (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Phantom limbs more common than previously thought
After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom limb - the vivid illusion that the amputated arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar illusions ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Study shows brain activity associated with phantom limbs
Geneva, Switzerland - March 25, 2009 - Phantom limbs, often described after amputation, are also experienced as an extra limb in patients who are paralyzed on one side following a stroke. Referred to as supernumerary phantom ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Seeing is relieving: New hope for chronic pain sufferers
An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 29, 2009 |
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