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Feeling and Hurting
1st Edition - September 28, 1978
Editors: Edward C. Carterette, Morton P. Friedman
eBook ISBN:9781483276212
9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 6 2 1 - 2
Handbook of Perception, Volume VIB: Feeling and Hurting, deals with the perceptual aspects of feeling and pain. The book opens with a discussion of the history of research on… Read more
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Handbook of Perception, Volume VIB: Feeling and Hurting, deals with the perceptual aspects of feeling and pain. The book opens with a discussion of the history of research on feeling. This is followed by separate chapters on the biophysics and psychophysics of feeling; phylogenetic development of feeling; and role of different cerebral structures in somesthetic perception. Subsequent chapters deal with concepts in pain research; the neural mechanisms of pain; perceptual aspects of pain; and human pathological pain.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Part I. History of Research on Feeling
Chapter 1. History of Research on Feeling
I. Introduction
II. E. H. Weber (1795-1878)
III. M. Von Frey (1852-1932)
IV. Research on Warmth and Cold
V. Three Theories of Somesthesis
VI. Research on Touch
VII. Recent Directions in Research on Feeling
References
Part II. Biophysics, Neurophysiology, and Psychology of Feeling
Chapter 2. Biophysics and Psychophysics of Feeling
I. Tactile Sensitivity
II. Thermal Sensations
III. Proprioception
References
Chapter 3. Phylogenetic Development of Feeling
I. Evolutionary Development of Feeling
II. Conclusions and Comments
References
Chapter 4. The Role of Different Cerebral Structures in Somesthetic Perception
I. Physiological Considerations Based on Studies in Patients
II. Anatomical Considerations Based on Studies in the Monkey
III. Hemispheric Specialization in Normal Man
IV. Somesthetic Processing After Brain Bisection in Man
V. Somesthetic Processing After Cerebral Lesion in Man
VI. A Final Comment
References
Part III. History of Concepts in Research on Pain
Chapter 5. A Brief Historical Survey of Concepts in Pain Research
I. Introduction
II. Pain as Dysfunction
III. The Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies
IV. Morphology of Pain Endings
V. Surgical Interruption
VI. Axon Size and the Concept of Specific Segregated Channels for Pain
VII. Protopathic-Nonspecific Concepts
VIII. Central Nociceptiye Action
IX. Pain Control
X. Summary
References
Part IV. Neurophysiology, Psychology, and Pathology of Pain
Chapter 6. Neural Mechanisms of Pain
I. Introduction
II. Peripheral Mechanisms
III. First Central Synapses
IV. The Ventrolateral (Spinothalamic) Pathway
V. Supraspinal Mechanisms
VI. Descending Influences
VII. Summary
References
Chapter 7. Psychological Dimensions and Perceptual Analyses, Including Pathologies of Pain
I. Introduction
II. Perceptual Parameters
III. Personality Parameters
IV. Pathologies of Pain
V. Conclusions
References
Chapter 8. The Hurtful World: Pathological Pain and Its Control
I. Introduction
II. Basic Considerations in the Study of Pathological Pain