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Offline Kaiaatzl

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Video games cure phantom pain
« on: March 05, 2014, 10:44:34 AM »
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Re: Video games cure phantom pain
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2014, 07:41:09 AM »
That is very interesting indeed.  :)
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Re: Video games cure phantom pain
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2014, 07:47:20 AM »
Very interesting, yes, but the ending has me just a tad bit confused. Reading the article, it sounds like they are decoding the signals the brain is sending the phantom arm, and using that to position a virtual arm. Then at the end, they say they can't predict the position of the phantom arm.
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Re: Video games cure phantom pain
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2014, 08:11:12 AM »
I just read that part over again... it's talking about a different technique (motion controlled games like stuff on the Wii or Xbox Kinect) that doesn't work as well because it can't take the phantom limb into account.
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