The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UC San Diego received a $1.3 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to fund a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic ...

Phantom-limb pain is as mysterious as the name implies. The vast majority of amputees experience "phantom-limb" sensations that make them feel their missing limb is still part of their body. The cause ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current methods of phantom limb pain relief are primarily focused on ameliorating symptoms. The Targeted Brain ...

Despite its name, phantom pain is a real, painful sensation that some amputee patients feel in a part of their body that no longer exists. The part of the body that is removed through amputation ...

Easing phantom limb pain can be as simple as looking in the mirror. Scientists who have mapped how mirror therapy changes the brain may now be able to predict just how much treatment will ease a ...

Joyce Johnson was 44 years old when she learned she’d have to undergo a below-knee amputation on her right leg due to a severe blood clot. For a time, she thought losing a limb and adjusting to using ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Neuroscientists have long held that the brain reorganizes itself when a body part is amputated. A new ...

Nearly five years ago, Albert Yu-Min Lin was out with a friend in an open-top four-wheel-drive vehicle—a cross between a golf cart and a Jeep. Bombing around the desert and kicking up clouds of dust ...

Every morning and night for one month, Dean Peterson donned virtual reality goggles to help him fall asleep. Once a heavy sleeper, he hadn't slept well since he had his lower left leg amputated in ...

Osaka, Japan — Phantom-limb pain is as mysterious as the name implies. The vast majority of amputees experience "phantom-limb" sensations that make them feel their missing limb is still part of their ...