{"id":498,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:37:08","slug":"hommie-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Hommie in Medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Som-sens-crtx-animation.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">somato-sensory cortex<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The cortical homunculus is used to describe &#8220;the body within the brain&#8221;, 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=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 303px; height: 197px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/homunculus.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><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 corres-pondingly large lips, hands, feet, genitals:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 195px; height: 215px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/homunculus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This concept relates to many neuro-biological phenomena such as &#8220;phantom limb&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Body_integrity_identity_disorder\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">body integrity identity disorder<\/span><\/a>&#8221; 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\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 209px; height: 212px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/homunculus-sensory.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><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: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>somato-sensory cortex The cortical homunculus is used to describe &#8220;the body within the brain&#8221;, 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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