Injury to one part of the body often results in hypersensitivity to pain somewhere else. Unusually, this process seems to be coordinated by the brain in a way that does not involve the transmission of nerve impulses.
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Bartfai, T. Telling the brain about pain. Nature 410, 425–427 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35068663
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