CNN Erin Burnett OutFront March 10, 2015 23:51:00
In iraq and afghanistan who are losing limbs. does that ever go away, that feeling? >> how important it is in someone's life probably diminishes to the point where they don't really feel it anymore but what is happening that you don't realize it's always a two-way sort of communication. your brain is sending a signal to your arm and arm is sending a signal back to your brain. it's this position in space with this space around it. the brain is confused. what happened to the signals coming back from the arm? it starts finding other places where it should be coming to. sort of rewiring itself but...
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