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M was 39 when she had a bout of shingles that left a portion of her forehead numb to pain. A relentless itch on that same spot led to her scratching through her skull. How and why did this happen? Feat. Paramore, shivers and dashed hopes.

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References

Dr Oaklander's 2002 paper (M's original case study)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
(Here's it is not behind a paywall: https://scihub.tw/10.1016/s03043959...)

Atul Gawande's New Yorker article 'The Itch'
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...

Gawande answering further questions about the article
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...

Other papers from Dr Oaklander
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...
https://www.jpain.org/article/S15265...

Laurent Misery's paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrneu...

The visual perception 90% / 10% theory from Richard Gregory
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.simplypsychology.org/perc...
http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/...