Can you still feel a limb that's gone? - Joshua W. Pate
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The vast majority of people who’ve lost a limb can still feel it — not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail. They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watch band or the throb of an ingrown toenail. What causes these phantom limb sensations? Joshua W. Pate explains how the brain reacts to a missing limb.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Joshua W. Pate
- Director
- Tolga Yıldız
- Narrator
- Addison Anderson
- Art Director
- Tolga Yıldız
- Illustrator
- İbrahim Hakkı Uslu
