At age 19, Ian Waterman suffered a bout of stomach flu and the antibodies produced to fight off the pathogen ended up attacking his nerves in a highly specific way. The nerves that were damaged by his immune system left him with no sense of the location of his bones, limbs, joints, and muscles in space. Though he could continue to feel heat and pain, he had no sense of his body existing in the space below his neck. He became known as “the man who lost his body”. Which somatosensation did Mr. Waterman lose?
a. vestibular sensation
b. equilibrium
c. proprioception
d. gustation
c. proprioception
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