Response to Letter to the Editor: The application of transcranial direct current stimulation on phantom phenomena

Salvatore Settineri

Abstract


I thank you for your letter concerning the pathology linked to the phantom limbs and for the related relationship with the pain that this mental representation arouses (Orrù et al., 2020). The issue adequately falls within the intentions of the MJCP letters to the Editor such as those summarized by Peh & Ng (2010).


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Clinical Psychology; Phantom limb; Phantom limb pain; Phantom limb phenomena; Transcranial direct current stimulation; tDCS- Amputation.

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