People with spinal cord injuries often lose some or all their limb function. In most patients, the nerves in their limbs work ...

A rare circulatory problem required Emily Wheldon to have her left arm amputated three years ago. Her brain still thinks it's there. "Most days, it just feels like I've got my arm next to me," she ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers found that the brain’s control center for a lost appendage can persist long after surgical amputation, which stands in stark contrast to longstanding theories ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cortical region of the brain does not reorganize after amputation of a limb. Machine learning is essential ...

The brain-computer interface team at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) in Hangzhou, China, has made a series of breakthroughs to improve life for ...

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research had ...

A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter -- just by ...

Even years after an arm is amputated, the brain maintains a detailed map of the limb and tries to interact with this phantom appendage. In the brain, a lost limb is never really gone A rare ...