Abstract
The presentations in this session, and the discussions that followed, revolved principally around four topics: Do different types of neurn express plasticity to different degrees or in different wats? What are th stimulus conditions necessary to evoke modifications in neuronal responsivity? What are the mechanisms that underlie the various kinds of plasticity? And, what is the function of lamina I projection neurons with regards to pain perception and stimulus-evoked plasticity? It is apparent that definitive answers are not near to hand and that tese questions will occupy a great deal of our research efforts in the future.
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Bennett, G.J. (1989). Discussion on Section IV. In: Cervero, F., Bennett, G.J., Headley, P.M. (eds) Processing of Sensory Information in the Superficial Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0825-6_32
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