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Zion Harvey's brain rewired itself after an infection led to the loss of his hands -- and his brain has adjusted again since he had a double hand transplant.
An investigation of a man who received a successful hand transplant suggests that reorganization of sensory maps in the brain following amputation can be reversed in short order.
Conventional wisdom among neuroscientists suggests that the brain's motor functions are organized around the body, meaning ...
Play What Happens to Your Brain When You Use Your Feet as Hands? Clear brain maps of the toes found in foot artists, not seen before in humans Posted September 15, 2019 ...
A paralyzed 24-year-old man has regained some use of his right hand, controlling it with signals relayed from electronic sensors in his brain. Ian Burkhart of Dublin, Ohio, can grasp a bottle, pour… ...
Brain implant and bionic hand helped patient regain sense of touch. — -- Twelve years after becoming paralyzed in a car accident, Nathan Copeland remembered the moment he was finally able to ...
Two-and-a-half years after Zion Harvey became the world's first child to receive a bilateral hand transplant, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found that the boy's brain ...
Yet, regardless of which hand you prefer, this preferred hand is hooked up to the opposite side of your brain. So my trusty right hand is connected to my left brain—the side responsible for ...
How busy hands can alter our brain chemistry March 18, 2018 / 9:41 AM EDT / CBS News "Admiring your own handiwork" is a familiar expression containing an important truth about the mind.