Understanding pain
Subtitle: an enquiry into pain perception
By: Fernando Cervero
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780262018043
Subjects: Pain; Treatment; Pain perception
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A biological enigma: the meaning of pain; title: How much it hurts, measuring pain; title: Sensing pain: nociceptors; title: The enchanted loom: pain networks; title: Pain dynamics: sensitization; title: I feel your pain: perception and the brain; title: A certain gut feeling: visceral pain; title: A mere curse: neuropathic pain; title: Sex, genes and stress: pain modulation; title: A pain free world: curing pain.