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Delaneyplace hadde et utdrag om "Neuroplacticity and chronic pain" fra "The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity".

Der framgår det at det er hodet og ikke kroppen som erfarer smerte:

"Touch a part of the body's surface, and a specific part of the brain map, devoted to that spot, will start to fire. These maps for the body's surface are organized topographically, meaning that areas that are adjacent on the body are generally adjacent on the map. When the neurons in our pain maps get damaged, they fire incessant false alarms, making us believe the problem is in our body when it is mostly in our brain. Long after the body has healed, the pain system is still firing. The acute pain has developed an afterlife: it becomes chronic pain."