by Erin Albrecht on April 19th, 2005

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Why do people who have had a limb amputated still "sense" its presence?

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by allesandra on April 22nd, 2007
Everything in the body that you think you feel at the site, is really felt in the brain, and even though there is no limb, there is still the spot on the cerebral cortex that senses that part of the body.
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