Pain and Touch

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.

ISBN 0124269109   Pages 394 ISBN13 9780124269101 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc   Weight (grammes) 780 Imprint Academic Press Inc   Published in San Diego Format Hardback   Series title Handbook of Perception and Cognition Publication date 30 Sep 1996   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 96-22523   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 152.182   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Contributors
		Foreword
		Preface
1		History of Research on Touch by Joseph C. Stevens and Barry G. Green
2		The Psychophysics of Tactile Perception and Its Peripheral Physiological Basis by Joel D. Greenspan and Stanley J. Bolanowski
3		Somatosensory Cortex and Tactile Perceptions by Harold Burton and Robert Sinclair
4		Nociception and Pain: Evolution of Concepts and Observations by Edward R. Perl and Lawrence Kruger
5		Afferent Mechanisms of Pain by Bruce Lynn and Edward R. Perl
6		Measurement of Pain Sensation by Richard H. Gracely and Bruce D. Naliboff
7		Pathological Pain by C. Richard Chapman and Mark Stillman
8		Control of Pathological Pain by Russell K. Portenoy
		Index

"A handbook bringing together the diverse aspects of perception and cognition as they affect the experiences of touch and pain. The 14 contributors comprehensively survey all research on touch and consider topics in the psychophysics of tactile perception, somatosensory cortex and tactile perceptions, nociception and pan, the mechanisms and measurement of pain, and pathological pain and its principles of assessment and management. Includes statistical tables and graphs." --SCITECH BOOK NEWS "Pain and Touch...is an exceptional book...for the outstanding collection of authors to present reviews that provide considerable depth of coverage...The coverage is scholarly and the emphasis is on very recent findings, making this book ideal for advanced graduate students, faculty, and investigators in psychology and medical fields." --CHOICE "This text provides the knowledge required to view pain as a concept in and of itself rather than merely a compilation or extension of nociceptive events. It is an up to date, authoritative work by world renowned experts carefully shepherded by a careful, knowledgeable volume editor." --Somatosensory & Motor Research

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