Functional Neuroanatomy of Pain
Publication year: 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-28166-5
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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".
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, anatomy, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, nociception, pain perception, perception, postherpetic neuralgia
