Understanding pain : exploring the perception of 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...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.