Your brain holds on to a map of your body, even if it is altered drastically during your lifetime – such as having a limb amputated. Contrary to previous assumptions, a new study shows that the brain’s body map is remarkably unchanging, an insight that could help amputees experiencing phantom limb pain. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Phantom limb sensations affect the majority of amputees to some degree or another. Neuroscientist Dr Austin Lim , who recently appeared at IFLScience’s CURIOUS Live event, wrote in his book Horror On The Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction , “Many describe their phantom limb pains as a crawling feeling on the skin, a burning, the sudden feeling of a spike driven throug

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