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 responsible for sensing the position and movement of the body, and damage to them would result in a loss of body awareness, as described by the patient.

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