Error of the brain: why root amputated limbs and missing teeth
Error of the brain: why root amputated limbs and missing teeth MOSCOW, 18 sen — news, Alfia Enikeeva. Almost 80 percent of amputees to the end of life suffer from phantom pain. Often unpleasant feelings arise in lost hands and feet, sometimes whine even extracted teeth. Upstairs RIA Novosti understands how it can hurt what is already there. Virtual flapping his arms In September 2014, 14 volunteers, a few years suffer from phantom pain in amputees, was sitting in front of computers in the laboratory of the Technological University of Chalmers (Sweden). Each stroke of their non-existent hands were displayed on the monitors the movements of the virtual hands is a special computer program reads the testimony of electrodes attached to the stumps, and compared them with the patterns characteristic of various movements, and converted into movement on the screen. Newsthe Mystery of the male brain: what causes the differences