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This project investigates the phenomenon of pain illusions, where individuals perceive pain without tissue damage. By employing behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, it aims to understand the mechanisms behind these illusions and their clinical relevance, ultimately developing new tools for pain assessment and a comp…
What does it mean to experience an illusion of pain?
The typical role of pain is to signal when the body is damaged.
However, pain illusions in the absence of any risk of tissue damage are common in the normal population.
For example, a mix of warm and cold stimuli can be perceived as burning hot, as in the case of the Thermal Grill Illusion.
So far, research on thermosensation and pain has largely treated pain illusions as curious quirks of the thermo-nociceptive system, and underplayed the fac…
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