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Hosted by Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich Jun. It's an automatic car and it has hand controls. I spent 32 years in the Air Force, 25 of that in active flying. It's a nightmare.And today on our program, we're looking at brains and bodies and how sometimes brains and bodies can get wildly out of sync. Hello? But my fingers, they have not disappeared, and they're still up here dangling near my shoulder and they're still painful. As I lay there, and I was laying flat, I had a rippling sensation in my tummy, around the ankles a tingling sensation. In other words, phantom limbs are like real limbs. And there is a second route, it turns out.... which bypasses all of that visual cortex stuff ...... and goes straight to this area called the amygdala. You know, lunch -- we don't go into a luncheonette for lunch. And he said, "No, you know, this has happened three days ago. The other thing is I couldn't control my arm to get -- to get the sound off either. A very, very frustrating therapy, but one has to admit that it is a good one in that takes an awful lot of fine, dexterous movement to get paper clips together and apart again.But the idea of breaking down every move you make into sub moves and sub sub moves and then relearning everything, it's exhausting.What if you were walking down the street and suddenly a thought, like a daydream pops into your head? Weirder still, an even smaller sub sub group reported seeing the classic tunnel with white light type thing. Production management by Dean Cappello and Michael Alsessor. ]At the end of that last run, Dr. Whinnery got off the centrifuge woozy, and stumbled down the hall.I was really confused when -- when I got off the centrifuge, and I was walking down the hall back to my laboratory.

I just think about, "I want to get up. Go home. You may grab the dental mirror to reassure yourself that all is okay, and this does and it doesn't reassure you.But you can still wag your tongue. Three flavors of Out of Body Experience. And while you are there send us an email. My cell phone is ringing. And then ever since, this man had an uncanny feeling that he still had an arm where his real arm used to be.Yes. Where Am I? The next thing I realized was I was trying to turn off the buzzer in the centrifuge with my hand and I could hear it, I could not move it. And it turns out that the pain there subsided a bit, so he's not that worried about us getting rid of them.So somewhere in California, there's still a guy walking around with a sense ...Yeah, are still dangling out of his shoulder. And in fact, your typical army surgeon was basically graded on how quickly they could do an amputation.It was one of the first wars where we really had doctors being aggressive in terms of taking off limbs.Like I said, that photo got us thinking. It's cut off.Think of it from the brain's perspective. And he found a few things. "The things that are happening around you frequently get incorporated into those short dreamlets.Here's one of his own. Feel angry! We speak with a neuroscientist who solved the problem with a magician’s trick: an optical illusion. And then all of a sudden I was back in the centrifuge. - Radiolab. What is wrong with Ian?Ian at the time he had his illness had lost a class of peripheral nerve cells to do with sensation. Many things to learn. Special thanks to Arwen Curry, Tamar Lewin, Nick Capodice, Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler and Keith Scott. Okay, so final ready has been activated. So I pressed the button. First, light bounces off Tommy's corpse and enters my eyes.Okay, it goes up some nerve from your eyes and into one part of the brain which turfs it onto the next part.A couple of steps down, it gets into what's called your visual cortex which turns the dots into lines and lines into shapes. Where Am I for Radiolab. That's unusual. I still feel it move." We continue with the story of a butcher who suddenly lost his entire sense of touch. So that's like over the weight of a car.Yeah, exactly. And this incidence occurred in July of 1952 at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.Our story begins on a normal training day. Simple movement.I couldn't control anything totally. And speaking of brains and bodies ...Let's put the science on pause for a moment and take a brief detour, because often what gets you into these ideas, like, take this kid for example.I'm Christopher Sayles. And at the foot of the table must have been a doctor sawing away.A circular amputation involved cutting straight through the skin to the bone. And he'll say things like, "It's going into a cramp with the nails digging into the phantom palm and it's excruciatingly painful. Tamar knows the fight is over mentally, but her body is still tense, her heart is still racing and her brain thinks, "Whoa. But he says, "My God, Doctor, you're not gonna believe this. As soon as the babysitter calls when I'm going to be out of town and says, "Should I make dinner for Robert?"

This is Mission Control. Doctors couldn't help him because they'd never seen anything quite this drastic, until he finally did meet a doctor, Jonathan Cole, who began to help him figure out what might be going on.So let me ask Jonathan for a second. Our tour guide ...He showed us a particular photo that got us thinking.It's a famous photo in our archives. Dr. V.S. "Well, actually we can move an arm." It's a picture of legs.... some feet thrown sort of haphazardly into a pile.But the next thought immediately after was, what was happening at that moment? And he says a hundred years ago, William James poses a thought experiment.He says, imagine you're walking through the woods. That's the only favor to my disability really, but I tend to do with my driving what I do within the way that I manage my life, which is I plan ahead.I'm just -- my last question really for Ian I guess, is have you solved this problem as best you can? Radiolab is produced by New York Public Radio WNYC and distributed by NPR.

"So maybe, thought Dr. Ramachandran, maybe this patient got so frustrated trying to move his real arm, that at some point ...After a few months or a year, the paralysis got learned by the brain, stamped into the circuitry of the brain. All these movements in my fingers, in my elbow, in my wrist from 11 years ago come flooding into my mind.