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WARNING! In this episode, we discuss topics that involve severe harm to humans and animals. If this is a sensitive issue for you, consider skipping this episode. For the most part, we made attempts to avoid the description of actual physical violence. Instead, we explore what phantom limb pain is and some of the hypotheses around why we have it. Have you ever wondered whether people born without limbs would feel phantom limb pain? Or where the pain is located in the missing body part? We describe the research on how common this experience is and what researchers believe they understand about why people experience pain in missing body parts after those body parts are no longer there, sometimes long after they are gone!

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Links for Today:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354174/ (recent literature summary and review of history and research on phantom limb pain)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_pain (Wikipedia summary on phantom limb)
https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/phantom-limb-pain#1 (phantom limb pain and pain management)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-about-kids/201906/phantom-limb-the-science-impossible-sensation-part-2 (therapies for phantom limb pain)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967586804003819\ (article on deep brain stimulation for phantom limb pain)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253324/ (more recent review and criticism of deep brain stimulation for phantom limb pain)
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/prm/2018/5080123/abs/ (psychological factors related to the experience of phantom limb pain)
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/bio_sp/3/ (criticism of phantom limb pain as psychological problem)

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