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Spinal Modulation of Noxious Stimuli

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Pain is an imprecise symptom that achieves recognition as a percept within the mind. The central appreciation of pain involves the cerebral cortex, and probably also the lower end of the thalamus and upper end of the midbrain. There are both an organic component — an unpleasant experience primarily associated with physical damage and often described in terms relating to injury (Merskey and Spear 1967) — and a psychological component as interpretation takes place only in the mind, and the information recorded there is entirely personal, a private matter that cannot be shared by anyone else or described in terms that mean the same thing to another person (Mehta 1973). It is learnt from childhood onwards and the expression of that symptom is often governed by memory of previous occasions when it occurred.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, PR2 4HT, Preston, Lancashire, UK

    Edmund Critchley DM, FRCP (Consultant Neurologist) (Consultant Neurologist)

  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4E3, Canada

    Andrew Eisen MD, FRCP(C) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit)

  3. Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4E3, Canada

    Andrew Eisen MD, FRCP(C) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit)

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Critchley, E.M.R., Isaac, M.T. (1992). Spinal Modulation of Noxious Stimuli. In: Critchley, E., Eisen, A. (eds) Diseases of the Spinal Cord. Clinical Medicine and the Nervous System. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3353-7_3

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