In Article <3kk01q$jgc at ns1.CC.Lehigh.EDU>, x011 at Lehigh.EDU wrote:
>In article <3kcg5f$eq8 at cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, ST004131 at brownvm.brown.edu (Justin
Ba
>ker) writes:
>>Regarding the cause of sensation associated with phantom limbs, I am
>>fairly confident that it has little to do with any direct signal or
>>lack of signal from the limb.
What do you mean by cause? If I recall correctly, studies showed that
phantom limb pain was much less common in anesthetized amputees. Therefore,
the signal received during the amputation is important in the cause of
phantom limb pain.
Rifle River
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