http://cbtish.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/pain/ CBT and related things Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cbtish.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/pain/#comment-765 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:33:33 +0000 http://cbtish.wordpress.com/?p=3050#comment-765 The animation gave me the impression that faulty glia amplified any signal from the arm, causing it to be interpreted as pain. Perhaps there is normally a negative feedback mechanism that balances the amplification, and when the negative feedback gets broken the system goes into overload, but I am just speculating in saying that.

]]> http://cbtish.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/pain/#comment-764 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:41:49 +0000 http://cbtish.wordpress.com/?p=3050#comment-764 What I don’t quite understand is how the ‘pain’ is a result of that feedback loop. The person would continuously feel their arm being touched but why does it come with pain?

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