Increased sensitization in a sensory neural network, once initiated, is sustained by the synchronization of the rhythmic activity of the enhanced neural group within and between other neural groups in the central nervous system (CNS). In other words, the new functional state creates, in essence, a small biologic oscillator in the CNS to which other neural groups in the CNS synchronize, thus enhancing and stabilizing the new state that has been initiated in that particular neural pathway.
