PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Phantom Pain, Visual Cortex, Somatic Nervous System
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The other region, the anterior cingulate gyrus, influences our attentional and emotional responses to pain; this brain region is found on the medial surface of the brain immediately above the corpus callosum. Although you might not immediately think of pain as an emotional experience, you can likely think of situations in which you were quite upset and frustrated after hurting yourself. Slow fibres register chronic dull pain, such as the lingering feelings of bumping your knee into the coffee table p. 170: one ingenious treatment for phantom pain involves the mirror box. This apparatus used the reflection of the amputee"s existing limb, such as an arm and hand, to create the visual appearance of having both limbs. Some are either too difficult to test, too general in its parameters or whose sources are not very good and thus hard to prove/replicate.
