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Transcript: After Hand Transplant, Patient's Brain Adapts
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- NPR Weekend All Things Considered
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- October 12, 2008
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ANDREA SEABROOK
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
10-12-2008
After Hand Transplant, Patient's Brain Adapts
Host: ANDREA SEABROOK
Time 8:00-9:00 PM
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ANDREA SEABROOK, host:
Welcome back to All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Andrea Seabrook. Dave Savage has been living with just one hand for 35 years because of a workplace accident. Now, thanks to a hand transplant, he's teaching scientists new things about the human brain. See, this Michigan man can feel things with his new hand because his brain seems to be rewiring itself. NPR's Richard Knox has a story.
RICHARD KNOX: Dave Savage, who's 56, says he wakes up every morning happy to realize that he has two hands again.
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