Chapter 2: Phantom Limbs

First, please watch the video below.

Now create a brief presentation (you may either hand in your presentation text with a powerpoint or other visual aid, or record yourself giving the presentation) that explains what the condition is, and subsequently make clear how it is explained in terms underlying neural mechanisms. Or, in the words of Villanuryan Ramachandran: “We begin with a set of symptoms that seem bizarre and incomprehensible and then end up—at least in some cases—with an intellectually satisfying account in terms of the neural circuitry in the patient's brain.”

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