Pain and Touch

by Lawrence Kruger

An explosion of advances in the area of tactile perception and pain led to the development of this comprehensive, state-of-the-art text on basic research and clinical practice. Equal parts psychology and neuroscience, Pain and Touch covers peripheral cutaneous tactile information processing, sensory mapping, tactile exploratory behavior, neurophysiology of nociception and nociceptors in pain research, clinical scaling methods for psychophysics of pain, and paincontrol, pathology, and therapeutics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0124269109
• ISBN13: 9780124269101
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"