The neural basis of phantom limb pain

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 307-308

  Flor, Herta ^a   Diers, Martin ^a   Andoh, Jamila ^a  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL REORGANIZATION; PHANTOM LIMB PAINS;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS;

HEALTH;

EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; LIMB MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; PHANTOM PAIN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHORT SURVEY; AGNOSIA; HAND; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HAND; HUMANS; PHANTOM LIMB;

EID: 84879783757     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.04.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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