{"id":498,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"hommie-in-medicine?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Hommie in Medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Hommie in Medicine?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Som-sens-crtx-animation.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">somato-sensory cortex<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The cortical homunculus is used to describe &quot;the body within the brain&quot;, a distorted human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space certain body parts occupy on the somato-sensory cortex (sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (motor homunculus). The left hemisphere receives input from the body&#8217;s right side. The right one from its left side.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/homunculus.gif\" style=\"width: 271px; height: 176px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The lips, hands, feet and sex organs have more sensory neurons than other parts of the body, so the homunculus has correspondingly large lips, hands, feet, and genitals. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This concept relates to many neuro-biological phenomena such as &quot;phantom limb&quot; and &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Body_integrity_identity_disorder\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">body integrity identity disorder<\/span><\/a>&quot; and their opposite, the disappearance of body members from conscious perception as a result of brain damage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/homunculus-sensory.jpg\" style=\"width: 158px; height: 160px;\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/homunculus1.jpg\" style=\"width: 146px; height: 161px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The motor homunculus develops over time and varies in each of us. The hand in the brain of an infant differs from the hand in the brain of a concert pianist. Special abilities of a hand or other part creates deviations in the functioning of the associated areas of the brain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=499\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hommie in Medicine? somato-sensory cortex The cortical homunculus is used to describe &quot;the body within the brain&quot;, a distorted human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space certain body parts occupy on the somato-sensory cortex (sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (motor homunculus). The left hemisphere receives input from the body&#8217;s right side. 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