Understanding Pain : Exploring the Perception of Pain

• Tác giả: Fernando Cervero
• ISBN-10: 0262305437
• ISBN-13: 978-0262305433
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 616/.0472 Diseases
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xv, 172 pages) : , illustrations
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 251839
• Chủ đề: 1. Pain--Treatment; 2. Pain perception; 3. Pain

Tóm tắt

 Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to withdraw your hand. That kind of pain is actually good for us
  it acts as an alarm that warns us of danger and keeps us away from harm. There is another kind of pain that is more like a curse: chronic pain that is not related to injury. Cervero describes current research into the mysteries of chronic pain and efforts to develop more effective treatments.