What is central pain?
Central pain arises from neuronal dysfunction within the CNS.
The pain generator is not a peripheral nociceptor but a central population of neurons that spontaneously fire—delivering afferent traffic that is perceived as pain.
Examples of central pain include spinal cord injury (which is both deafferentation and central), poststroke pain, and pain from a multiple sclerosis plaque.
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