This is another of the technical articles, which will have limited readership. Amazingly, we do get questions on long term potentiation. What is happening is that CP sufferers are increasingly following our advice to go to PubMed on the internet, at the National Library of Medicine, and are encountering terms which lack meaning. Many of you are too sick to digest high grade material, so we try to simplify as much as possible. However, if you are going to be a savvy reader of PubMed, this article can give you background on the increasingly interesting subject of long term potentiation.
Dispersal of Brain Signals
This article is difficult to read, and unfortunately, it is written in a manner reminiscent of the thriller novel where one must digest a good deal of information in which unobvious clues do not become relevant until late in the book. You must endure some apparently pointless foundational information to understand the conclusory material. We apologize, but also offer it as an example of why so few young researchers go into pain research. It is difficult. Unfortunately, this is the nature of all brain science at this point in history. The tools to study the brain are just now being developed. The pioneers and heroes of pain research often go unrecognized. It is up to you and your letters to Congress to see that their research is at least funded.
You may wish to skip over the unfamiliar terminology, only to find that you cannot read the medical literature unless you have paid the price of becoming familiar with certain of the following terms. We have kept the complicated stuff to a minimum, but there is no way to convey to the Central Pain patient or her doctor the areas that the literature will discuss, without laying some ground work on
