Scientists discover new pain-sensing organ

[helvella]

Veyr brief as on my way out.

"They" keep finding things "they" didn't know about! Remember when it was announced that skin is an endocrine organ?

Scientists discover new pain-sensing organ

Octopus-like Schwann cells that engulf nerves in skin can sense pain, experiments show

theguardian.com/science/201...

[ Link now, I hope, fixed! ]

[Sybilla14]

Interesting indeed. Phrases: “....have largely been overlooked” and “The scientists were surprised at the findings because it has long been believed...” we’re likely to read one day when “they” finally realise “their” dogma about the thyroid disfunction can no longer be supported 🙂

[Jazzw]

The link didn’t work for me but hopefully this one will: theguardian.com/science/201...

[MaisieGray]

The suffering those poor mice had to endure.

[TSH110 in reply to MaisieGray]

My thoughts exactly

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I was taught that Shwann cells' only function was to insulate and protect the nerves, like the casing on electric cables, but it seems they were moonlighting as ….signal boosters? ...transformers? ...Capacitors?

[Judithdalston]

I couldn’t get link to work properly either, but good opinion piece on diva and bullying drs. in nhs, many of us are familiar with!

[DIYqueen]

Poor mice...

[TSH110 in reply to DIYqueen]

Quite! I felt for them too

[humanbean]

What is this going to do to the belief held by so many psychiatrists and doctors that chronic pain is all in the mind and isn't "real".

I've read a few times in the last year or two that some doctors and researchers believe chronic pain isn't real and people just need CBT to get over it. People have had pain meds taken off them as a result of this sadism, particularly in the US where there is the hysteria about everyone on pain meds being an addict who can't be trusted.

[Cooper27]

This is really interesting. I suffer from provoked nerve pain, so it's exciting that they have found another potential cause, that could lead to a cure!