Understanding pain: exploring the perception of pain
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Main Author: Cervero, Fernando (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2012
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Online Access:FUBA2
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Item Description:Includes index
A biological enigma: the meaning of pain -- How much it hurts, measuring pain -- Sensing pain: nociceptors -- The enchanted loom: pain networks -- Pain dynamics: sensitization -- I feel your pain: perception and the brain -- A certain gut feeling: visceral pain -- A mere curse: neuropathic pain -- Sex, genes and stress: pain modulation -- A pain free world: curing pain
Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to withdraw your hand. That kind of pain is actually good for us; it acts as an alarm that warns us of danger and keeps us away from harm. There is another kind of pain that is more like a curse: chronic pain that is not related to injury. Cervero describes current research into the mysteries of chronic pain and efforts to develop more effective treatments
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 172 p.)
ISBN:9780262305433
0262305437
9780262018043
0262018047

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