Mice can develop a sense of embodiment of an artificial limb, similar to humans who participate in the rubber-hand illusion ...

However, the innate sense of body ownership can be severely impacted by brain injuries, resulting in a disturbing inability to recognize one’s body parts, sometimes even leading to their active ...

Like many children of women who took thalidomide, she has shortened “seal-like” limbs of phocomelia, previously a very rare syndrome, From “Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in ...

In most cases of phocomelia, the limbs are fused together and appear like flippers, which is where the condition got its name. "Phoco" means seal" and "melia" means limbs. Only in extremely rare ...

Instead, it had a Star Wars–like aesthetic. Giuffria was delighted ... Bionic (or myoelectric) limbs, which are operated by muscle and nerve impulses to more closely mimic the movements and ...

“These are ways to hopefully get toward prosthetic limbs feeling more like a part of the body than like a tool that somebody is wearing.” To Francesca Rossi of Bologna, Italy, another amputee ...