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‘It’s All Done With Mirrors’: V.S. Ramachandran and the Material Culture of Phantom Limb Research

This article examines the material culture of neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran’s research into phantom limbs. In the 1990s Ramachandran used a ‘mirror box’ to ‘resurrect’ phantom limbs and thus to treat the pain that often accompanied them. The experimental success of his mirror therapy led...

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Autor principal: Guenther, Katja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4904333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27292324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2016.27