The Brain | Lobes, corpus callosum, and cerebellum
Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast
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The Effects of Sleep on the Brain
When you go to sleep, your brain is getting all this input and it's loving it. As soon as you get asleep and you start to shut things off, the brain is starting to get starved of sensory input. Some individuals, if they lose a limb, they can project across because these neurons dedicated to the hand at the somatosensory cortex isn't getting any signals. So even though that part of the body is gone, they still feel it. We're not actually feeling it in the hand or at the foot or at the face. But we think we're feeling it at that body part. Wow. That was worth the lead up. And you were talking about the sensory
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