Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brain’s map of the body in the primary somatosensory cortex remains unchanged after amputation. (Zephyr/Science Source) A ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that the brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cambridge University upends a long-standing belief about brain plasticity. A study published today in Nature Neuroscience shows ...

Our brain maps out our body to facilitate accurate motor control; disorders of this body map result in motor deficits. For a century, the body map has been thought to have applied to all types of ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Our brain maps out our body to facilitate accurate motor control; disorders of this body map result in motor deficits. For a century, the body map has been thought to have applied to all types of ...

For more than half a century, scientists have studied how the surface of the body is mapped in parts of the brain associated with touch. That research has focused largely on "body maps" that show how ...

Psychologists have created body-maps of the sensations which arise during hallucinations in people experiencing psychosis. Leicester psychologists have, for the first time, created body-maps of the ...

Our brain maps out our body to facilitate accurate motor control. For a century, the body map has been thought to have applied to all types of motor actions. Now, a research group has revealed that ...