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New technique may help assess hand injuries – News-Medical.Net
Scratch your nose. Write a text message. Reach for a glass of water. Most people take these simple movements — brain-hand behaviors — for granted.
Scratch your nose. Write a text message. Reach for a glass of water.
Most people take these simple movements — brain-hand behaviors — for granted. But little is actually known about how the brain interacts with the body’s upper limbs to create these behaviors, said Scott Frey, Miller Family Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Missouri.
Frey’s interest in brain-hand communication began as a child after his mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS, a disease that affects…
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