Neuroscience: Focus on Acute and Chronic Pain

1. Front Matter

   Pages N2-XI

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2. Camillo Golgi: The Dawning of Neuroscience

   • M. A. Tiengo

   Pages 1-7

3. Neurochemistry of Pain Circuits: Physiological versus Pathological Pain

   • L. Calzà

   Pages 9-18

4. First Affluent Neuron

   • G. Carli

   Pages 19-26

5. The Involvement of the Brainstem Reticular Formation in Pain Processing

   • C. Desbois, L. Monconduit, L. Villanueva

   Pages 27-36

6. The Thalamus and Pain

   • M. L. Sotgiu

   Pages 37-42

7. Naloxone, but not Estradiol, Affects the Gonadectomy-Induced Increase in Hippocampal Cholineacetyltransferase Activity in Male Rats

   • I. Ceccarelli, A. Scaramuzzino, A. M. Aloisi

   Pages 43-49

8. Consciousness and Pain

   • C. R. Chapman, Y. Nakamura

   Pages 51-58

9. Visceral Pain Mechanisms

   • M. A. Giamberardino, J. Vecchiet, G. Affaitati, L. Vecchiet

   Pages 59-70

10. PET-Scan and Electrophysiological Assessment of Neuromodulation Procedures for Pain Control

    • L. García-Larrea, R. Peyron, E. Mauguière, B. Laurent

    Pages 71-86

11. Acute Postoperative Pain Service Models

    • G. Galimberti, P. Di Marco, A. Conti

    Pages 87-98

12. Postoperative Functional Pain Management

    • F. Nicosia

    Pages 99-104

13. Timing for Narcotic Drugs in Terminal Illness

    • S. Mercadante

    Pages 105-110

14. Ethical Decisions in Terminal Illness

    • D. Kettler, M. Mohr

    Pages 111-118

15. Back Matter

    Pages 119-122

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Dedicated to Camillo Golgi, a neuroscience pioneer, the volume deals with the process of diagnosis and the strategies of treatment of pain. The most recent data on the biochemical basis of neurotransmission are reported, and the results of updated researches in pain processing, either concerning the brainstem, the thalamus and the limbic system are analysed. The importance of the ethical aspect in decision-making during the treatment of terminally ill patients is underlined.

• Ethics
• Narcotic drugs
• Neuromodulation
• Neuroscience
• PET scan
• Pain
• Terminal illness
• brainstem

• State University of Milan, Milan, Italy

  M. A. Tiengo

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