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I believe this research is extremely beneficial and helpful to society. It is important for the medical community to continue their studies on how the body and brain interact with each other, by doing so more and more patients will keep reaping the benefits. It is amazing how the brain learns certain behaviors and an individual can have a sensation of having a limb that is not physically present. Deceiving the brain and unlearning the learned pain and behavior is remarkable and it can help so many people, not just those who have missing limbs. There are people that feel certain sensations in their bodies that are a product of their imagination. Of course I do not believe that this applicable to everyone, but there is a large portion in society that feel symptoms that are mere product of brain-learned behavior, which can be reversed with proper techniques. I personally do not see how this type of research can hurt society or make life more difficult in any way. …show more content…
I must say that prior to the podcast I did not have the knowledge of phantom limbs. It is very peculiar and fascinating how the brain works and there is still so much that we do not know about the brain. In addition, the sixth sense of proprioception is so remarkable and I do not even want to imagine what the individual that lost that sense went through. This research and the different scenarios presented in this podcast helped me expand my knowledge even more on how the brain interacts with different parts of the

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