#phantom-limb-pain

#phantom-limb-pain

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The study refutes foundational knowledge in the field of neuroscience that losing a limb results in a drastic reorganization of this region, the authors say. Pretty much every neuroscientist has learnt through their textbook that the brain has the capacity for reorganization, and this is demonstrated through studies on amputees, says study senior author Tamar Makin, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, UK. But textbooks can be wrong, she adds. We shouldn't take anything for granted, especially when it comes to brain research.