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2017-11-12 · 10:01

PHANTOM LIMB - Psychology - Homunculus.

"Archival psychology explainer on phantom limb phenomena and the cortical homunculus — how the brain's body map can keep 'feeling' a limb that is no longer there."

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Take-aways

01The brain holds a map of the body (the homunculus); phantom sensations arise from that map, not the missing limb.

02Perception is constructed by the brain — bodily experience can outlive the body part itself.

03Neuroplasticity underlies both the problem and several approaches to easing phantom limb pain.

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