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The parietal cortex and pain perception: a body protection system.
Pain is a very relevant function for our survival and its alteration leads to important consequences for people's lives. In the last decades, researchers have started to investigate pain from a neurocognitive and neuropsychologic perspective, showing some important similarities and differences with other cognitive and perceptual functions. The complexity of pain perception, due to its multicomponential nature, has led to the need to interpret pain within a multisensory frame of reference. That is, this function and its neural foundation cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration the processing of other information that is concurrently presented together with noxious stimuli. The extant research in this field has shown that the parietal cortex plays a major role in pain perception, due to its involvement in the integration of information coming from different sources, to the support of body ownership, and to its role in sustaining spatial attention and awareness. It is likely that this neurocognitive knowledge will lead to better treatments of chronic and acute pain in the future.
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