Finally, the study also shows that there is a need of further engineering advances such as the integration of somatosensory feedback into current prosthetics that can enable them to move and feel as real limbs.
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Contributors
University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV)
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (Bar-Ilan University)
Foundation Campus Biotech Geneva
EPFL Biomedical Imaging Research Center
Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging
Clinique Romande de Réadaptation - SUVA
Centro Protesi INAIL
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
University Hospital Geneva (HUG)
Funding
Swiss National Science Foundation
Bertarelli Foundation
Reference
Andrea Serino, Michel Akselrod, Roy Salomon, Roberto Martuzzi, Maria Laura Blefari, Elisa Canzoneri, Giulio Rognini, Wietske van der Zwaag, Maria Iakova, François Luthi, Amedeo Amoresano, Todd Kuiken, Olaf Blanke. Upper limb cortical maps in amputees with targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation: a 7T fMRI study. Brain 27 October 2017. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awx242
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