Primary Motor Area Activity in Phantom Limb Imagery of Traumatic Unilateral Lower Limb Amputees With Phantom Limb Pain.
André Tadeu SugawaraLucas Ramos De PrettoMarcel SimisFelipe FregniLinamara Rizzo BatisttellaPublished in: Advances in rehabilitation science and practice (2024)
The perception of the Phantom limb moving or intact limb moving is metabolically equivalent in M1, even in the absence of a limb. In other words, the amputation does not alter the brain metabolism in control of phantom movement.