> Even after rereading the analgesia chapter in Kandel, I'm having trouble
> understanding the mechanism in which the sensation of pain can be
> experienced in areas where there's no other sensory activity. For
instance,
> if a peripheral nerve is severed and a limb or digit then becomes numb to
> all forms of sensory activity, how then can pain still be detected in
these
> areas?
To further clarify this paragraph, I'm not referring to pain as a result of
a stimulus, but rather "randomized" pain, similar to an amputee's "phantom
pain".
