In "The Disembodied Lady," neurologist Oliver Sacks tells the story of a patient who suffered a catastrophic loss of sensory function.She said,"I feel my body is blind and deaf to itself....It has no sense of itself." The patient's nerve damage was strikingly specific.What single type of neuron most likely suffered damage?

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Proprioceptors are the sensory receptors that provide information about body position and movement. Damage to proprioceptors would impair the patient's ability to sense the position and movement of her body, which is consistent with her description of feeling "blind and deaf" to her own body.

In "The Disembodied Lady," Neurologist Oliver Sacks Tells the Story