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Community => Mess Hall => Topic started by: Kaiaatzl on March 05, 2014, 10:44:34 AM

Title: Video games cure phantom pain
Post by: Kaiaatzl on March 05, 2014, 10:44:34 AM

Some pretty awesome research:
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http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/3/5462508/phantom-pain-video-game-treatment (http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/3/5462508/phantom-pain-video-game-treatment)

Title: Re: Video games cure phantom pain
Post by: Scyphi on March 06, 2014, 07:41:09 AM

That is very interesting indeed.  :)

Title: Re: Video games cure phantom pain
Post by: -<WillyP>- 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.

Title: Re: Video games cure phantom pain
Post by: Kaiaatzl 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.