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Pain sensation is always a conscious phenomenon. For perception of a sensory stimulus the convergence of specific pain afferents and unspecific, respectively reticular, impulses in the same sensory cortical area is necessary. Pain sensation can be abolished by general anesthesia which blocks the unspecific projection system or by surgical interruption of the specific pain afferents. This oligosynaptic pathway can be surgically interrupted at the spinal level by chordotomy or by stereotactic lesion in the nucleus ventrocaudalis parvocellularis (V. c. pc.) of thalamus.
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Winkelmüller, W., Dietz, H. (1973). Supraspinal Pain Control by Dorsal Column Stimulation: A Possible Neuronal Interaction at the Level of Mesencephalic Reticular Formation. In: Schürmann, K., Brock, M., Reulen, HJ., Voth, D. (eds) Brain Edema / Cerebello Pontine Angle Tumors. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65734-4_60
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