Functional Neuroanatomy of Pain

• Main Authors: Usunoff, Kamen G. (Author), Popratiloff, Anastas (Author), Schmitt, Oliver (Author), Wree, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, 184
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

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Table of 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.