Cervero, Fernando.

Understanding pain : an exploring the perception of pain / Fernando Cervero. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. - xv, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

A biological enigma: the meaning of pain -- How much it hurts, measuring pain -- Sensing pain: nociceptors -- The enchanted loom: pain networks -- Pain dynamics: sensitization -- I feel your pain: perception and the brain -- A certain gut feeling: visceral pain -- A mere curse: neuropathic pain -- Sex, genes and stress: pain modulation -- A pain free world: curing pain.

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Pain.
Pain perception.
Pain--Treatment.

RB127 / .C43 2012

616/.0472