The labelled-lines principle of the somatosensory physiology might explain the phantom limb phenomenon

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 853-856

  Pereira, José Carlos ^a   Alves, Rosana Cardoso ^b  

^a Faculdade Medicina Jundiaí   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE;

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DEAFFERENTATION; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

HUMANS; PHANTOM LIMB; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 80053964786     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.07.054     Document Type: Article

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