The human pain system
Subtitle: experimental and clinical perspectives
By: Frederick A. Lenz ... [et al.].
Contributors: Lenz, Frederick A.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521114523
Subjects: Pain; Pain -- physiopathology; Afferent Pathways -- physiopathology; Central Nervous System -- physiopathology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discovery of the anterolateral system and its role as a pain pathway; title: Organization of the central pain pathways; title: Physiology of cells of origin of spinal cord and brainstem projections; title: Physiology of supraspinal pain, related structures; title: Functional brain imaging of acute pain in healthy humans; title: Pain modulatory systems; title: Peripheral and central mechanisms and manifestations of chronic pain and sensitization; title: Functional imaging of chronic pain; title: Functional implications of spinal and forebrain procedures for the treatment of chronic pain.