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Neuroscience

What Happens to Your Brain When You Use Your Feet as Hands?

Harriet Dempsey-Jones Ph.D. on September 15, 2019

Artists who paint with their feet can do amazing things on canvas, but what's going on in their brains is just as impressive.

Artists who paint with their feet can do amazing things on canvas, but what's going on in their brains is just as impressive.

Neuroscience

Touch or Vision: Which Would You Rather Lose?

Harriet Dempsey-Jones Ph.D. on April 8, 2019

A life without vision may seem grey, but without our sense of touch, you are a goner

A life without vision may seem grey, but without our sense of touch, you are a goner

Neuroscience

Is What We Thought We Knew About Brain Plasticity Wrong?

Harriet Dempsey-Jones Ph.D. on February 12, 2019

New brain scans reveal phantom hands in the brain decades after amputation.

New brain scans reveal phantom hands in the brain decades after amputation.

Integrative Medicine

How Can You Experience Touch With an Artificial Hand?

Harriet Dempsey-Jones Ph.D. on March 1, 2018

Brain implants allow a human to move a robotic arm and, for the first time, perceive the sensation of touch with the digital digits.

Brain implants allow a human to move a robotic arm and, for the first time, perceive the sensation of touch with the digital digits.