All Posts: limb prostheses

• Study of Reaching and Grasping with Hand or Foot Reveals Novel Brain Insights

  WASHINGTON (October 26, 2020) — People born without upper limbs who use their feet to reach for an item engage the same area in the brain that people with hands use to reach for something, report Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. The finding, published October 26, 2020, in PNAS, advances the basic science of brain […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain plasticity, brain research, limb prostheses, mind, neuroscience, Sensory and Motor Plasticity Lab