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Functional Neuroanatomy of Pain [electronic resource] /by Kamen G. Usunoff, Anastas Popratiloff, Oliver Schmitt, Andreas Wree.

by Usunoff, Kamen G [author.]; Popratiloff, Anastas [author.]; Schmitt, Oliver [author.]; Wree, Andreas [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology: 184Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.Description: IX, 119 p. 19 illus. online resource.ISBN: 9783540281665.Subject(s): Medicine | Neurosciences | Biomedicine | NeurosciencesDDC classification: 612.8 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- Functional neuroanatomy of the pain system -- Primary afferent neuron -- Distribution of nociceptor peripheral endings -- Termination in the spinal cord and spinal trigeminal nucleus -- Ascending pathways of the spinal cord and of the STN -- Dorsal column nuclei and nociception -- Cerebellum and nociception -- Cortices involved in pain perception and thalamocortical projection -- Descending modulatory pathways -- Neuropathic pain -- Central changes consequent to peripheral nerve injury -- The role of glial cells -- Neuropathology of herpes zoster (HZ) and of postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) -- Diabetic neuropathic pain -- Cancer neuropathic pain -- Central neuropathic pain -- Concluding remarks -- Summary -- Subject index.
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Introduction -- Functional neuroanatomy of the pain system -- Primary afferent neuron -- Distribution of nociceptor peripheral endings -- Termination in the spinal cord and spinal trigeminal nucleus -- Ascending pathways of the spinal cord and of the STN -- Dorsal column nuclei and nociception -- Cerebellum and nociception -- Cortices involved in pain perception and thalamocortical projection -- Descending modulatory pathways -- Neuropathic pain -- Central changes consequent to peripheral nerve injury -- The role of glial cells -- Neuropathology of herpes zoster (HZ) and of postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) -- Diabetic neuropathic pain -- Cancer neuropathic pain -- Central neuropathic pain -- Concluding remarks -- Summary -- Subject index.

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