Gifts at Changing The Present

Neuroscientist Finds Transplanted Hand-to-brain Mapping 35 Years After Loss Of Limb

by (author unknown), ScienceDaily: Disability News on Oct 09, 2008

Four months after a successful hand transplant -- 35 years after amputation in an industrial accident at age 19 -- a 54-year-old man's emerging sense of touch is registered in the former "hand area" of the his brain, says a University of Oregon neuroscientist.


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