Many people see the fate of the tortured as one in which the victim is haunted by thoughts and memories of the horrible ordeals they have suffered.
But new science now reveals that there is much more to torture than just the psychological aftereffect, as terrible as it is.
Decades later, it now seems from new data, the victim feels the pain anew, in a chronic way, which accompanies them seemingly forever. And that's because the perception of pain if forever changed in the brain of those who have suffered torture.
What is even more interesting, and baffling, is that the pain when felt anew after time has elapsed, is sometime even stronger than the one experienced at the time of the torture.
And that pain is not necessarily the pain associated with the locus of the torture, or any places where the pain was first experienced, but the augmented sensation applies to all pain experience the victim suffers after the torture experienced.
Even more baffling, the placebo effect in those who had suffered torture was even greater than in people who had not experienced it, signifying that even the promise of relief was enough to alleviate the pain.
The researchers in the study from Tel Aviv, also noticed that in the study pool of Army veterans, those who had suffered torture, even if it was psychological torture, still had a heightened sensation of pain, compared to those who had not, which points to a nexus in the pain perception which could be purely psychological in nature and derived from the trauma of torture.
Source : MNT/ 11.09.13
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