PSYC 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nociceptor, Phantom Limb, Syphilis
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Updated version of descartes idea - a reliable theory - body sends reliable signals. Something went wrong and your body is responding. We have different centre for different pain we experience and different tube systems which connect to the brain and can be individually activated (1 to 1 correspondence) A very mechanistic and low level means of what will happen during a pain experience. Different nerves individually tuned to different types of pain. Particular kinds of sensitivity, where other are high threshold nerve pain receptors. Specialized nerves reporting to different parts of the brain. Kind of skin receptors (specialized) key receptors. Since there were many fancy sensory apparatuses in skin each must have an individual func- tion. When studies done to cut out pieces of skin to study. Understanding pain depends on your understanding of nociceptors. Nervous system when stimulated today will be the same as yesterday or tomorrow unless you destroy something.
