A 20-year-old man recently had two of his healthy fingers amputated to resolve his persisting distress that they didn't belong on his body. A 20-year-old Canadian man no longer has two of his healthy ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21, 2025 – New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cambridge University upends a long-standing belief about brain plasticity. A study published today in ...

New evidence counters the conventional wisdom that limb amputation leads to reorganization of the map the brain uses to track the body’s location. When researchers compared three patients before and ...

A woman loses her hand, yet her brain doesn’t seem to notice. Months later, when she tries to “move” her phantom fingers, the same pattern of brain activity lights up as it did before surgery. A study ...

The brain holds a "map" of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it rearranges itself to compensate for the loss, according to new ...