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Improved motor, sensory, and cognitive recovery of hand and arm function after stroke

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Image credit: Internet Archive Book Images via Flickr. No known copyright restrictions. Article source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Original article written by Hillary Sanctuary. Science News – January 7, 2022.

It happens that, after lying for a while in a way that puts pressure on a nerve in your arm, you do not feel the arm anymore, you cannot perceive its location and size, and it feels like it does not belong to your own body. If this condition lasts for years, the representation of the upper limb in the brain is chronically distorted. […]