Question 79

(Multiple Choice)

Use the following information to answer the next few questions.
While deployed to Afghanistan,a soldier steps on a landmine and loses the lower portion of his right leg and also sustains a substantial brain injury.In time,doctors observe that the soldier is not acquiring new long-term memories since the explosion occurred; however,his recollection of times previous to the explosion is impeccable.Sometimes the soldier can feel a tingling sensation in his missing limb.
-Over time,the soldier's phantom limb syndrome subsides and he rarely "feels" his missing limb.This is an example of


A)neural plasticity.
B)somatosensory regeneration.
C)autonomic arousal.
D)reticular formation.
E)sympathetic response.

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