Hallucinatory pain: Central pain

Abstract

Central pain can easily be described as hallucinatory pain, being couched as a disturbance of sensory information transfer along an uninhibited reverberating corticothalamocortical sensory channel. This generator alters the widely distributed small-world architecture of the brain, which can be neuroimaged, for instance, as an alteration of brain rhythms in multiple brain areas. These by themselves are not responsible for the sustenance of the pain but may contribute to the different qualities thereof.