The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Dr. Anna Gottschlich, assistant professor of oncology in the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s Population Studies and Disparities Research Program, a five-year, $916,545 career development award to support her research on the epidemiology of cancer health disparities and early detection and interception strategies to improve cancer equity.

The brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it rearranges itself to compensate for the loss, according to new research from scientists in the UK and US. The findings, published today in Nature Neuroscience, have implications for the treatment of ‘phantom limb’ pain, but also suggest that controlling robotic replacement limbs via neural interfaces may be more straightforward than previously thought.

The findings challenge the widely accepted theory of brain plasticity.