Title: Pain /
Authors: Bonica, John J., 1917-1994; Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease
Publisher: Raven Press,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Pain Management; Pain; Pain Congresses; Pain Management Congresses.
Contents: Introduction / John J. Bonica -- Afferent basis of nociception and pain: Evidence from the characteristics of sensory receptors and their projections to the spinal dorsal horn / Edward R. Perl -- New observations on the anatomy of the spinothalimic tract / Frederick W. L. Kerr and Takanori Fukushima -- Neural and behavioral correlates of pain in the trigeminal system / R. Dubner, R. L. Hayes, and D. S. Hoffman -- General discussion -- Neurophysiology of nociception and pain in the spinal cord / William D. Willis -- Reticular formation and pain: Toward a unifying concept / Kenneth L. Casey -- General discussion -- Pain and perception: Comparison of sensory decision theory and evoked potential methods / C. Richard Chapman -- Psychological aspects of pain / Ronald Melzack -- Hypnotic control of pain: Toward a clarification of the different psychological processes involved / Martin T. Orne -- Measurement of human pain / B. Berthold Wolff -- General discussion -- An endorphinergic, centrifugal substrate of pain modulation: Recent findings, current concepts and complexities / Jack E. Sherman and John C. Liebeskind -- The role of substantia gelatinosa as a gate control / Patrick D. Wall -- Peptide neurotransmitters with possible involvements in pain perception / Solomon H. Snyder -- General discussion -- The role of the psychiatrist in the investigation and treatment of pain / H. Merskey -- Current investigations in headache / Milos Sovak, Donald J. Dalessio, Richard A. Sternbach, and Minerva Kunzel -- General discussion -- Central mechanisms of chronic pain (Neuralgias and certain other neurogenic pain) / William H. Sweet -- Deafferentation and causalgia / Ronald R. Tasker, Leslie W. Organ, and Peter Hawrylyshyn -- General discussion -- Cancer pain / John J. Bonica -- Low back pain / John D. Loeser -- General discussion -- Concluding Remarks / John J. Bonica