BBC News - What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

In a lab in southern California scientists are curing the previously incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing our understanding of the brain in the process.

In mid-November the team at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) announced the results of a small pilot study which suggests that a simple mind trick involving mirrors can help ease the pain of osteoarthritis, a condition that affects one in 10 people.

That study is in its very early stages, but since the mid-1990s neuroscientist [...]

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Find out more about VS Ramachandran's work on Exchanges at the Frontier from the BBC World Service in association with the Wellcome Collection. Listen to the programme here.

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