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The mystery of pain /

"Why does scratching an itch feel so good? Why is pain from a mosquito bite preferable to the same pain from an unidentified source?Douglas Nelson provides the reader with a comprehensive, practical and highly accessible guide to the scientific understanding of pain. The book explores the diffe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Douglas, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Singing Dragon, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : understanding that I don't understand
  • A deeper understanding
  • Alarms and fires and alarms without fires
  • That which can be known, but not seen
  • Nocere
  • Modulation
  • Central sensitization
  • When the system goes awry : sensitization
  • Meaning and context
  • Attention
  • Fear : memory and pain : fear and hypervigilance : fear of movement : diagnosis and fear
  • Placebo
  • Trigger points
  • Phantom limb
  • Social support
  • Fibromyalgia
  • The pendulum.