1. The phantom limb feeling and the body sheme: a study on the regression of the phanton limb
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Manfred in der Beeck
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Missing limb ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Emotions ,Phantom limb ,medicine.disease ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,body regions ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Phantom Limb ,Neurology ,Feeling ,Amputation ,medicine ,Humans ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,media_common - Abstract
Most people who have suffered amputations feel the missing limb for some considerable time, as though it were still present: this is the socalled phantom limb feeling. Its origin is as yet unexplained. In the case of amputations in peace-time it often lasts for only a few days or weeks, whereas, when amputations are carried out under war-time conditions, the feeling of the phantom limb, or the hallucinatory feeling of pain, may last from the moment of the amputation onwards, [...]
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- 1953
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