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Phantom Limb Syndrome

Known as: Stump Hallucination, pain phantom, Sensations, Phantom 
Perception of painful and nonpainful phantom sensations that occur following the complete or partial loss of a limb. The majority of individuals with… 
National Institutes of Health

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AmputationAmputation StumpsIn BloodMicrobiological

Broader (3)

Nerve root and plexus disordersPhantom painaltered body image

Narrower (1)

Phantom Limb Pain

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Review
2015
Review
2015
Behavioral, Neural, and Computational Principles of Bodily Self-Consciousness
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Reversing pathological neural activity using targeted plasticity
Brain changes in response to nerve damage or cochlear trauma can generate pathological neural activity that is believed to be… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Psychosocial adjustment to lower-limb amputation: A review
Purpose: To review the existing literature on the social and psychological challenges faced by people with an amputation and to… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Pain and the neuromatrix in the brain.
The neuromatrix theory of pain proposes that pain is a multidimensional experience produced by characteristic "neurosignature… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Rehabilitation of hemiparesis after stroke with a mirror
Review
1998
Review
1998
The perception of phantom limbs. The D. O. Hebb lecture.
Almost everyone who has a limb amputated will experience a phantom limb--the vivid impression that the limb is not only still… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The perception of phantom limbs
Review
1997
Review
1997
The body in the brain: neural bases of corporeal awareness
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors
Although there is a vast clinical literature on phantom limbs, there have been no experimental studies on the effects of visual… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Touching the phantom limb
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