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00:13 >> In the case of Karen, she felt
00:16 that her hand was grinded continuously, and it was frozen
00:19 and in a very awkward position.
00:21 And what happened after she received the new prosthesis is
00:25 that she was able to use the same
00:28 or somewhat the same neural resources that she used
00:31 to control her biological hand,
00:33 now to control the artificial hand.
00:35 And in that way, release the phantom, so she's able
00:38 to move the phantom and use those neurons
00:42 to control the prosthesis rather
00:43 than borrowing them to process pain.
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00:59 So we have a better integration, and we can have reliable
01:02 and intuitive control of some movements of the hand
01:05 but not all of them.
01:06 So we cannot replicate the full dexterity
01:08 of a human hand and the strength.
01:10 So there is still a lot of work to do on the control side
01:14 and also on the sensations,
01:16 the sensations the patient feel are very rough.
01:18 They're not near that of a human experience of touch.
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