If you use your feet like hands from birth, the brain will create a different "map" of the toes that's more like the one it has for the fingers, new research reveals. That's the case with Tom Yendell ...

Tom Yendell and Peter Longstaff are good at thinking on their feet. They have to be: Both were born without arms. But both still became painters, thanks to the extraordinary dexterity of their toes.

Before Rosie Jon was born, her mom had a vivid dream that her future daughter had a special gift. When Rosie was born without forearms, that dream set the stage for how Rosie would approach life with ...

WESTPORT – “Creativity was a world where I knew there was no limit,” says Rosie Jon, a painter who was born without arms. So, when her son was headed to kindergarten, she turned to art to ease her ...

The human brain has an extraordinary ability to adapt to major changes, both in the brain itself and in the rest of the body. New research in the journal Cell Reports shows that for individuals born ...