Pain and Touch

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Kruger has received several honors including the Lederle Medical Faculty! Wellcome Professor! Fogarty Senior International Scholar! and Javits Neuroscience Investigator Awards. He is the founding editor of Somatosensory and Motor Research and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals. His publications include more than 150 papers and book contributions; he has also recently published an atlas of the rat brain (Cambridge University Press! 1995) and served as editor of volumes in the field of pain. Dr. Kruger is a Professor of Neurobiology and Anesthesiology at the UCLA Medical Center. He received a Ph.D. in Physiology at Yale University and post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins! the College de France! and Oxford University! spending the remainder of his career at the University of California. His research has extended from animal behavioral studies and psychophysics to electrophysiology of sensory pathways and in more recent years to electron microscopy and chemical neuroanatomy relevant to touch and pain systems. Klappentext Equal parts psychology and neuroscience! this comprehensive! state-of-the-art text on basic research and clinical practice covers peripheral cutaneous tactile information processing! sensory mapping! tactile exploratory behavior! neurophysiology of nociception and nociceptors in pain research! clinical scaling methods for psychopsyics of pain! and pain control! pathology! and therapeutics. Zusammenfassung Advances in tactile perception and pain have lead to the development of this text on basic research and clinical practice. Chapters discuss how the brain processes both pain and touch! the nerve pathways! how sensations of pain can be measured! and means of controlling pathological pains. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...

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• Con la collaborazione di: Edward C. Carterette (Editore), Morton P. Friedman (Editore), Lawrence Kruger (Editore), Lawrence (University of California Kruger (Editore)
• Editore: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780124269101
• ISBN: 978-0-12-426910-1
• Pagine: 394
• Serie: Handbook of Perception and Cog; Handbook Of Perception And Cognition
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche cliniche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica