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The Itch

Science tumbled:

A fascinating New Yorker article that starts off with the case of M., who had such a terrible itch that she — or so the story goes — scratched through her skull to the brain; from there, it continues with a discussion of the nature and neuroscience of itching, of phantom sensations and ultimately of perception itself. (via Neurophilosophy)

Having endured a lot of goddamn impossibly itchy itching in my childhood, when I had all sorts of allergies, I can sympathize with H., who has had an itch that no scratching could relieve for the last eleven years:

“I find I am choosing itch relief over the pain that I am provoking by satisfying the itch,” he said.

Of course, that poor guy has it much, much worse than I ever had.