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Functional Neuroanatomy of Pain (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 184)

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Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1630829 bytes)
Pages
130\126
Time added
2024-04-29 04:40:09

Description

Pain is an unpleasant but very important biological signal for danger. Nociception is necessary for survival and maintaining the integrity of the organism in a potentially hostile environment. Pain is both a sensory experience and a perceptual metaphor for damage and it is activated by noxious stimuli that act on a complex pain sensory apparatus. However, chronic pain having no more a protective role can become a ruining disease itself, termed "neuropathic pain".

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