Pain and Touch
Published on 14. May 2014
413 pages
978-0-08-053833-4 (ISBN)
Description
An explosion of advances in the area of tactile perception and pain led to the development of this comprehensive, state-of-the-art text on basic research and clinical practice. Equal parts psychology and neuroscience, Pain and Touch covers peripheral cutaneous tactile information processing, sensory mapping, tactile exploratory behavior, neurophysiology of nociception and nociceptors in pain research, clinical scaling methods for psychophysics of pain, and paincontrol, pathology, and therapeutics.
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English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
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Windows
ISBN-13
978-0-08-053833-4 (9780080538334)
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Lawrence Kruger
Pain and Touch
Book
09/1996
Academic Press
€154.75
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Content
J.C. Stevens and B.G. Green, History of Research on Touch.J.D. Greenspan and S.J. Bolanowski, The Psychophysics of Tactile Perception and Its Peripheral Physiological Basis.H. Burton and R. Sinclair, Somatosensory Cortex and Tactile Perceptions.E.R. Perl and L. Kruger, Nociception and Pain: Evolution of Concepts and Observations.B. Lynn and E.R. Perl, Afferent Mechanisms of Pain.R.H. Gracely and B.D. Naliboff, Measurement of Pain Sensation.C.R. Chapman and M. Stillman, Pathological Pain.R.K. Portenoy, Control of Pathological Pain.Chapter References.Index.
