News From the Cause
How to rewire the nervous system: (THE ECONOMIST)
September 10, 2010
“targeted reinnervation”… involves rerouting the nerves that would have originally controlled and sensed the missing limb and connecting them instead to other parts of the body. By rewiring a missing arm’s motor nerves to muscles in the remaining stump, shoulder or chest, for example, and rewiring the arm’s sensory nerves to the skin in these regions, a channel is opened to the part of the brain that once controlled the missing limb. click here to view
