The human pain system : experimental and clinical perspectives / Frederick A. Lenz ... [et al.] - Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - x, 638 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Discovery of the anterolateral system and its role as a pain pathway -- Organization of the central pain pathways -- Physiology of cells of origin of spinal cord and brainstem projections -- Physiology of supraspinal pain, related structures -- Functional brain imaging of acute pain in healthy humans -- Pain modulatory systems -- Peripheral and central mechanisms and manifestations of chronic pain and sensitization -- Functional imaging of chronic pain -- Functional implications of spinal and forebrain procedures for the treatment of chronic pain

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Pain--physiopathology
Afferent Pathways--physiopathology
Central Nervous System--physiopathology

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