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Myth or Fact? Cutting into the brain of an awake patient directly results in agonizing pain.

October 5, 2015 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Dura, Headache, Nociception, Nociceptor, Pain, Pia, Receptor, Skull

Did You Know? Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

A World Without Pain

September 25, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 0 Comments 2006, Al-Gazali, An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain, Cox, Dorsal Root Ganglia, Infographic, mutation, Nature, Nav1.7, Neuropathic, Nociceptor, Pain, SCN9A, Sodium channel, Somatosensory, Tetrodotoxin

In Northern Pakistan, a ten-year old street performer awed and horrified crowds with his ability to place knives through his arms and walk across burning coals all seemingly without pain.… Read more

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