Wolfgang Larbig

TL;DR: A very strong direct relationship is reported between the amount of cortical reorganization and the magnitude of phantom limb pain (but not non-painful phantom phenomena) experienced after arm amputation, indicating that phantom-limb pain is related to, and may be a consequence of, plastic changes in primary somatosensory cortex.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that cortical reorganization and phantom limb pain might have a causal relationship and methods designed to alter corticalorganization should be examined for their efficacy in the treatment of phantom limbPain.

TL;DR: Data suggest selective coactivation of the cortical hand and mouth areas in patients with phantom limb pain and reorganizational change may be the neural correlate of phantom limbPain.

TL;DR: Observed alterations provide evidence for extensive plastic reorganization in the adult human cortex following nervous system injury, but they are not a sufficient cause of the phantom phenomenon termed 'facial remapping'.

TL;DR: In this article, magnetic source imaging revealed that the topographic representation in the somatosensory cortex of upper extremity amputees was shifted an average of 1.5 cm toward the area that would normally receive input from the now absent nerves supplying the hand and fingers.