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SCRATCHING A PHANTOM LIMB...
...thumb, Victor replied. Ramachandran touched the skin between Victor's nose and mouth. His missing index finger was being brushed, Victor said. A spot just below Victor's left nostril caused the boy to feel a tingling on his left pinkie. And when Victor felt an itch in his phantom hand, scratching his lower face relieved the itch. In people who have lost a limb, Ramachandran concluded, the brain reorganizes: the strip of cortex that processes input from the face takes over the area that originally received input from a now missing hand. That's why touching Victor's face...
Similarly, because the regions of cortex that handle sensations from the feet abut those that process sensations from the surface of the genitals, some people who have lost a leg report feeling phantom sensations during sex. Ramachandran's was the first report of a living being knowingly experiencing the results of his brain rewiring...
...piece chronicled Nardelli's demise and his troubled relationship with the Home Depot board, and a thoughtful Alan Murray analysis described how Nardelli fell out of touch with the demands today's CEOs routinely face. The pieces jointly dominated the top of page one; I didn't miss that phantom sixth column (whose absence, by the way, is saving the Journal an estimated $18 million a year...
...sophomore Kati Vaughn scored her second career goal on the power play when she flung the puck on net from the top center of the offensive zone. The score came just seconds into a power play that had upset the Bobcats bench because of what it saw as a phantom penalty call on Antoinette Maldonado. “I was not happy with our sense of urgency in the first period,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “We played with conviction from then on out, though.” The Crimson’s opening...