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When a nerve is cut, the CNS loses access to sensory information from a corresponding portion of the periphery. In addition to this loss of input, however, nerve injury also initiates several positive, and less generally appreciated processes. These include the creation of spurious afferent inputs, and the induction of CNS changes which may profoundly distort the neural processing of both spurious and remaining true signals.
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Devor, M. (1984). Spinal Cord Plasticity Induced by Peripheral Nerve Injury and Some Consequences for Sensory Dysfunction. In: von Euler, C., Franzén, O., Lindblom, U., Ottoson, D. (eds) Somatosensory Mechanisms. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07292-7_24
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