system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
It's said that some lobotomies, such as Rosemary Kennedy's, were performed on awake patients under local anaesthetic. What would a person have sensed or felt as a metal instrument was sweeping through their head?
gpt
While the brain is obviously at the heart of nocioception, it does not itself contain what would be called pain receptors. Almost all modern brain surgeries are done with the patient awake. So in a sense the brain feels no pain, yet feels all the pain.