Somatosensory Mechanisms: Proceedings of an International Symposium held at The Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, June 8–10, 1983

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Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Neural Mechanisms in Somesthesis: Recent Progress and Future Problems....Pages 3-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Comparative Evoked Potential Studies on Somatosensory Cortex of Mammals....Pages 19-49 The Organization of Somatosensory Cortex in Primates and Other Mammals....Pages 51-59 Imaging the Responding Neuronal Population with 14C-2-Deoxyglucose: The Somatosensory Cerebral Cortical Signature of A Tactile Stimulus....Pages 61-80 Organization of Noxious and Non-Noxious Inputs in Smi Cortex: Comparison in Normal and in Arthritic Rats....Pages 81-92 Cortical Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying the Perception of Motion Across the Skin....Pages 93-112 Integration of Somatosensory Events in the Posterior Parietal Cortex of the Monkey....Pages 113-124 Cortical Areas in Man Participating in Somatosensory Discrimination of Microgeometric Surface Deviations and Macrogeometric Object Differences....Pages 125-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Why are Selectively Responsive and Multireceptive Neurons both Present in Somatosensory Pathways?....Pages 141-161 Tactile Sensation Related to Activity in Primary Afferents with Special Reference to Detection Problems....Pages 163-172 Role of Single Mechanoreceptor Units in Tactile Sensation....Pages 173-183 Size Perception and Localisation of Sensations from Single Mechanoreceptive Units in Man....Pages 185-196 Can Sympathetic Outflow Influence Afferent Activity in Man?....Pages 197-211 Peripheral Coding Mechanisms of Touch Velocity....Pages 213-226 Velocity of Indentation as a Variable in Tactile Sensation....Pages 227-235 Spatial and Nonspatial Neural Mechanisms Underlying Tactile Spatial Discrimination....Pages 237-248 Influences of Cutaneous Sensory Input on the Motor Coordination During Precision Manipulation....Pages 249-260 Cutaneous Thermoreceptors....Pages 261-272 Possible Redundance of Spinal Pathways for Behavioural Thermosensitivity....Pages 273-283 Centrifugal Control of Somatosensory Inflow into the Spinal Cord....Pages 285-296 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Descending Control of Nociceptive Transmission by Primate Spinothalamic Neurons....Pages 297-308 Effects of Systemic Morphine on Monkeys and Man: Generalized Suppression of Behavior and Preferential Inhibition of Pain Elicited by Unmyelinated Nociceptors....Pages 309-323 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 The Hyperpathic Syndrome: A Challenge to Specificity Theory....Pages 327-337 Spinal Cord Plasticity Induced by Peripheral Nerve Injury and Some Consequences for Sensory Dysfunction....Pages 339-351 Sensibility Abnormalities in Neuralgic Patients Studied by Thermal and Tactile Pulse Stimulation....Pages 353-361 The Role of C-Nociceptors in Cutaneous Heat Pain and Hyperalgesia....Pages 363-377 Determinants of Subjective Attributes of Normal Cutaneous Sensation and of Paresthesiae from Ectopic Nerve Impulse Generation....Pages 379-387 Back Matter....Pages 389-396