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  2. Congenital insensitivity to pain - Wikipedia

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    A patient and doctor discuss congenital insensitivity to pain. For people with this disorder, cognition and sensation are otherwise normal; for instance, patients can still feel discriminative touch (though not always temperature [3]), and there are generally no detectable physical abnormalities.

  3. Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis - Wikipedia

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    Since people with this condition are unable to sweat, they are unable to properly regulate their body temperature. [1] Those affected are unable to feel pain and temperature. [2] [3] The absence of pain experienced by people with CIPA puts them at high risk for accidental self-injury. Corneal ulceration occurs due to lack of protective impulses ...

  4. Nociceptor - Wikipedia

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    ' pain receptor ') is a sensory neuron that responds to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli by sending "possible threat" signals [1] [2] [3] to the spinal cord and the brain. The brain creates the sensation of pain to direct attention to the body part, so the threat can be mitigated; this process is called nociception.

  5. 8 surprising ways your brain powers the rest of your body - AOL

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    But the brain itself has no pain receptors. That headache pain is coming from nerves somewhere else in your head. This is why patients can sometimes be awake during brain surgery, as a surgeon ...

  6. Somatosensory system - Wikipedia

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    This photo shows tactile markings identifying stairs for visually impaired people. The somatosensory system , or somatic sensory system is a subset of the sensory nervous system . It has two subdivisions, one for the detection of mechanosensory information related to touch, and the other for the nociception detection of pain and temperature. [ 1 ]

  7. Unsurprisingly, Women Experience Pain Differently Than Men ...

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    One is that the meditation-based pain relief was less effective in men when the opioid system was blocked, which suggested that they tend to rely on the body’s opioid production to reduce pain.

  8. Mechanosensation - Wikipedia

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    Aδ fibers are characterized by thin axons and thin myelin sheaths, and are either D-hair receptors or nociceptive neurons. Aδ fibers conduct at a rate of up to 25 m/s. D-hair receptors have large receptive fields and very low mechanical thresholds, and have been shown to be the most sensitive of known cutaneous mechanoreceptors.

  9. 24 Things You Really to Know About Osteoporosis ... - AOL

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    One in three women is likely to have a fracture caused by osteoporosis in her lifetime. Hip fractures can cause serious pain and disability and require surgery. Spinal fractures can cause you to ...