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Main description:
Pain is an emotion experienced in the brain, it is not like touch, taste, sight, smell or hearing. It is categorised into Acute Pain less than twelve weeks duration and Chronic Pain if over twelve weeks. Pain can be perceived as a warning of potential damage, but can also be present when no actual harm is being done to the body. This book examines new research into the causes, symptoms and treatments of pain.
Contents:
CONTENTS: Preface; Pain and Utilisation of Health Services; The Affective Dimension of Pain: A Neurobiological Review; Progress in Pain Research; The Promise and Limitations of Broad-Spectrum Analgesics: Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Agonists as a Potential Candidate; Spinal Cord Stimulation - Mechanisms and Clinical Application; Pain and Neuroplasticity in Human's Contribution From Neurophysiological Studies; The Affective and Cognitive Dimension of Nociception in an Animal Model: The Role of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex; Pain and Celebrating New Life: Women Giving Birth; Index.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Nova Biomedical
Publication date: July, 2006
Pages: 188
Weight: 610g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Anaesthetics and Pain, General Issues