{"id":548,"date":"2007-01-03T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/a-tragedy-if-you-don%c2%b4t-feel-pain\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T01:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T00:37:38","slug":"a-tragedy-if-you-dont-feel-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/a-tragedy-if-you-dont-feel-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"A tragedy if you don&#8217;t feel pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highly successfull <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v444\/n7121\/full\/nature05413.html\">study<\/a> of the molecular pathways of nociception (and identification of a loss of function  mutation in the alpha subunit of SCN9A, a voltage gated sodium channel) has a sad story from Northern Pakistan<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe index case for the present study was a ten-year-old child, well known to the medical service after regularly performing &#8216;street theatre&#8217;. He placed knives through his arms and walked on burning coals, but experienced no pain. He died before being seen on his fourteenth birthday, after jumping off a house roof.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is so difficult for us humans to accept that pain has an important function in life, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly successfull study of the molecular pathways of nociception (and identification of a loss of function mutation in the alpha subunit of SCN9A, a voltage gated sodium channel) has a sad story from Northern Pakistan The index case for the present study was a ten-year-old child, well known to the medical service after regularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/a-tragedy-if-you-dont-feel-pain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tragedy if you don&#8217;t feel pain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945,13,529,532,531,530,533],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology","tag-history-insights","tag-medical_service","tag-molecular_pathways","tag-nociception","tag-northern_pakistan","tag-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}