I tweeted excitedly about this yesterday, but in case you missed it, House used a mirror box on this week’s episode to cure (okay, treat) a belligerent neighbor’s phantom limb pain.
I sat there and giggled for five minutes straight (Liz will confirm) because it’s a treatment invented by one of my favorite scientists — certainly one of my favorite neuroscientists — V.S. Ramachandran. I credit his excellent book Phantoms in the Brain (along with a few excellent professors) for getting me into neuroscience, and the mirror box features heavily in that book.
So check out the episode when it hits Hulu. It was also good to see House’s old team back together— I hope it holds up. The dynamic is priceless; I didn’t realize how much I missed it.
