Re: Explain this brain paradox.

From: John Hasenkam (johnh_at_faraway.)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:54:17 +1000

"Sawal_7432" <sawal_7432@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5cd326f1.0409260957.760f5405@posting.google.com...
> Hi, i have a question about the human brain: It's a fact that humans
> can't feel their brains,I mean during brain surgery the surgeon can be
> cutting the patients brain,and they will not feel anything.If this is
> the case,then how is it that ppl who suffer from migraines/headaches
> describe feeling pain in their heads? Also, if you read the reports of
> drug expereinces on online websites, ppl using a variety of different
> drugs report feeling stimulaion in their spinal cord and also their
> brains?
> Thanks for reading my post and i look forward to reading any
> explanations to this paradox because i have struck by it for quite a
> long time.Bye.

Migraines and headaches appear to originate in inflammation of the covering
of the brain. In migraines there is often abnormal blood flows so the pain
may be originating in blood vessels but I suspect it still involves the
tissues surrounding the brain. As usual the research is controversial but if
you read enough neuroscience you get used to that. Certainty is for the
ignorant.

John.

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