Pain mechanisms in the spinal cord / Prof. Fernando Cervero - McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Cervero, Fernando, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain--Prevention.

Pain.

Pain--Treatment.

Physical Description:

1 videorecording (45 mins., 34 sec.) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

London, England : Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, 2009.

System Details:

video file

Contents:

Introduction

Descartes

Linear pain pathway

Real pain

Dorsal horn crossroads

Gate control theory

The role of the spinal cord in pain transmission

List of topics

Anatomical data on primary afferent nociceptors

Types of primary sensory afferents

Rexed's laminae

Dorsal horn morphology

Viscero-somatic convergence

Histology of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord

Sensory outputs of the spinal cord

Conclusions (1)

Response to visceral and peripheral inputs

Wide dynamic range neurons (WDR)

Nociceptor-specific neurons (NS)

Differences between WDR and NS neurons

Functional roles WDR and NS neurons

Conclusions (2)

Primary sensory neurons and 2nd order neurons

The dynamics of pain sensation

Irritable focus

Mechanisms of hyperalgesia

Wind-up of a nociceptive dorsal horn neuron

Receptive field expansion

Receptive field sensitization

Conclusions (3)

Descending modulation of pain transmission

Inhibitory and excitatory control of transmission

General conclusions

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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