{"id":7093,"date":"2016-12-10T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2016-12-10T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T00:22:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/10\/word-of-the-day-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>precuneus<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_7094\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7094\" class=\"wp-image-7094\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?resize=333%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"333\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?resize=768%2C564&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?resize=204%2C150&amp;ssl=1 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sobo_1909_624_-_Precuneus.jpg?resize=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Location of Precuneus in red.<br \/>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Precuneus\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Further clues on how to tackle itch come from brain imaging studies. Many brain areas activated by pain are also active during itch, but one area that seems distinctively responsive to itch is the precuneus. This brain region is involved in visual processing and memory, says Gil Yosipovitch at the University of Miami, Florida. \u201cWe can\u2019t pinpoint what the precuneus does in itch, but it\u2019s uniquely activated with itch and not pain,\u201d he says. [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231010-300-itch-when-pain-feels-good\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Itch: When pain feels good<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, Stephani Sutherland, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (26 November 2016, paywall)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>precuneus: Further clues on how to tackle itch come from brain imaging studies. Many brain areas activated by pain are also active during itch, but one area that seems distinctively responsive to itch is the precuneus. This brain region is involved in visual processing and memory, says Gil Yosipovitch at \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/10\/word-of-the-day-53\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7096,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}