The phantom limb they'll say, But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

You've heard of phantom limb pain?

Now, why would a phantom limb be paralyzed?

And you all know what a phantom limb is.

Now, why do you get a paralyzed phantom limb?

And we approach this problem by considering another curious syndrome called phantom limb.

So, you have a patient with a phantom limb. If the arm has been removed and you have a phantom, and you watch somebody else being touched, you feel it in your phantom.

Now the astonishing thing is, if you have pain in your phantom limb, you squeeze the other person's hand, massage the other person's hand, that relieves the pain in your phantom hand, almost as though the neuron were obtaining relief from merely watching somebody else being massaged.

So, I said, OK, this proves my theory about learned paralysis and the critical role of visual input, but I'm not going to get a Nobel Prize for getting somebody to move his phantom limb.

Maybe you can relieve the phantom pain, the phantom cramp.

A Phantom Recovery?

He said, No, last three days, I've not had a phantom arm and therefore no phantom elbow pain, no clenching, no phantom forearm pain, all those pains are gone away.

It was a paralyzed phantom arm.

The Phantom Middle East Peace Process

Could you regenerate a limb?

One of the things we've found was, about half the patients with phantom limbs claim that they can move the phantom.

A mammalian fetus, if it loses a limb during the first trimester of pregnancy, will re grow that limb.

You see the phantom within the aquarium.

Charles Limb Building the musical muscle

Charles Limb Your brain on improv

I've had patients with the uterus removed hysterectomy who have a phantom uterus, including phantom menstrual cramps at the appropriate time of the month.

She did Cats and Phantom of the Opera.

Now, I said, Move your normal hand and phantom.

What's beautiful is, you can probably see on the limb there some faint, sort of, wisps of almost smoke rising up from the limb.

... above the limb, yes, it would be difficult ...

This is a newt re growing its limb.

It's getting messages from vision saying the phantom is back.

And I hold in my hand a tissue mimicking phantom.

Unfortunately, we don't do great with upper limb prosthetics.

This is actually a limb injury in this salamander.

And that scar actually grows out a new limb.

He's got a small residual limb on one side.

He looks at the phantom being resurrected, because he's looking at the reflection of the normal arm in the mirror, and it looks like this phantom has been resurrected.

And he started giggling, he says, I can see my phantom.

This is a really basic, basic prosthetic limb under here.

He had a phantom arm, excruciatingly painful, and he couldn't move it.

The first peak, obviously, is the limb hitting the load cell.

A prosthetic limb doesn't represent the need to replace loss anymore.

He's going to get the visual impression that the phantom is moving, right?

He said, Oh, I can't move my phantom. You know that. It's painful.

When you see me today, I look like the Phantom of the Opera.

Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack They don't let you fully experience music yet. At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.

(e) Improved limb atmospheric spectrometer (ILAS) by the Environment Agency of Japan

(Text ... any person with a below the knee limb could do this.

In fact, you can get a phantom with almost any part of the body.