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Phantom limb pain, cortical reorganization and the therapeutic effect of mental imagery

Using functional MRI (fMRI) we investigated 13 upper limb amputees with phantom limb pain (PLP) during hand and lip movement, before and after intensive 6-week training in mental imagery. Prior to training, activation elicited during lip purse showed evidence of cortical reorganization of motor (M1)...

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Autores principales: MacIver, K., Lloyd, D. M., Kelly, S., Roberts, N., Nurmikko, T.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2494616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18567624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awn124