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Conflicts of Interest

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Embodied Brains and Disembodied Minds:Reviving the golden Age of Neurology

VS RamachandranThe Center for Brain and CognitionAnd Psychology DepartmentUniversity of California San Diego

Team members:Paul McGeoch MDJason Mckeown MD, Chaipat Chunharas, Nicholas Root

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Soul•Metaphysical Questions

•The Self

Self

1) Embodiment*2) Continuity

3) Agency4) Unity/Coherence

5) Privacy*6) Self-Awareness

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Apotemnophilia / Xenomelia

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Phantom Massage

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Chan et al., 2007

Phantom Limb Pain

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

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Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

DeBlasis et al., 2009

RSD Pain

Mirror Visual Feedback (MVF)Virtual Reality

1. Phantom PainImmediateLong Lasting

2. CRPS or RSD3. Stroke4. Hand Rehab5. Trigeminal Neuralgia

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•Rizzolatti et al, 2007

Mirror Neurons

Phantom Massage

Out-of-Body Experience

1. Frontal Damage 2. REM Sleep

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OCD

• Vicarious Relief through activating Mirror-Neuron System

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Proof That It’s Sensory

1) Segregation and Popout2) Colorblind Synesthete3) Martian Colors4) Blindsight5) Phenomenology – Illusory Contours6) Imaging

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Number Line (Galton)

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Calendar Line

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Team Members associated with this research:

• David Brang, Ed Hubbard, Eric Altschuler, Roland Lee, Mingxiong Huang, Paul McGeoch, Nicholas Root, Elizabeth Seckel, Chaipat Chunharchas, Baland Jalal, and Zeve Marcus.

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