Interestingly, body based attention to touch sensations, and more generally the sense of touch, are disordered in chronic pain and IBS. And the disorder seems to be mediated by a cortical mechanism.

FORBES: Catherine Kerr on the Science of Meditation

An ectopia is a collection of several hundred nerve cells that have pushed their way up from the lower cortical layers into the outermost one, where they are not found in normal circumstances.

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