27: The Little Man In The Brain: The Sensory Homunculus

<p>Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe discuss the most famous (yet, unreplicated) illustration in neuroscience, the sensorimotor homunculus, which purports to show the proportion of the brain dedicated to each body part. Is it accurate? </p> <p>Episode topics include: </p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Is the cortical homunculus a map, or the territory? </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">How did it come about? Penfield's methods and limitations. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">How might this all apply to manual therapy and massage? </li> </ul> <p>Get the full transcript at <a href='https://advanced-trainings.com/thinking-practitioner-podcast/'>Til</a> or<a href='https://www.academyofclinicalmassage.com/the-thinking-practitioner-episode-04/'> Whitney's</a> sites! </p> <p>Resources and references discussed in this episode: </p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Catani, Marco. 2017. “A Little Man of Some Importance.” Brain 140 (11): 3055–61. <a href='https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx270'>https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx270</a>. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Schabrun, Siobhan M., Edith L. Elgueta-Cancino, and Paul W. Hodges. 2017. “Smudging of the Motor Cortex Is Related to the Severity of Low Back Pain:” SPINE 42 (15): 1172–78. <a href='https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0000000000000938'>https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0000000000000938</a>. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Whitney Lowe’s site: <a href='https://academyofclinicalmassage.com'>AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com</a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Til Luchau’s site: <a href='https://advanced-trainings.com/the-thinking-practitioner-podcast/'>Advanced-Trainings.com</a> </li> </ul> <p>Sponsor Offers: </p> <ul><li>Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on <a href='https://booksofdiscovery.com/'>booksofdiscovery.com</a>. </li> <li>ABMP: save $24 on new membership at <a href='https://www.abmp.com/thinking'>abmp.com/thinking</a>. </li> <li>Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at <a href='http://handspring