E.N. Martynova - Research Scientist, Scientific Research Institute for Pediatry and Pediatric Seurgery (Moscow). E-mail: lemart@yandex.ru

Neirophylosophy as a brand of philosophy tries to find a material base of consciousness in the brain. The development of pain sensibility can be presented as a model of this connection. The features of the human pain sensibility development. The role of control in the perception of pain is difficult to overestimate. It is able to strengthen the response to the real impact of inadequate or to «force» myself not to react to a stimulus at all. Consciousness is the main object of study of pain by different specialists also. Neonatology in this section is remained «unreached», and any extrapolation of the data, obtained in older children, it is speculative absolutely. However, the study of pain through her awareness will help you find the point of fusion of the material and «intangible» world of man.

 

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