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Spinal Afferent Processing

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Editors:
  1. Tony L. Yaksh

    1. Departments of Neurosurgery and Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. A Short Biography of F. W. L. Kerr, M.D.

    • Tony L. Yaksh
    Pages 1-18

  3. Sensory Receptors of the Skin

    • Richard K. Winkelmann
    Pages 19-57

  4. Primary Afferents and Hyperalgesia

    • James N. Campbell, Richard A. Meyer
    Pages 59-81

  5. Nonclassical Features of Dorsal Root Ganglion Cell Organization

    • Richard E. Coggeshall
    Pages 83-96

  6. Organization of Dorsal Horn Neurotransmitter Systems

    • Carole C. LaMotte
    Pages 97-116

  7. Neurotransmitter Receptor Sites in the Spinal Cord

    • Virginia S. Seybold
    Pages 117-139

  8. The Pattern and Place of Nociceptive Modulation in the Dorsal Horn

    • M. A. Ruda
    Pages 141-164

  9. The Central Pharmacology of Primary Afferents with Emphasis on the Disposition and Role of Primary Afferent Substance P

    • Tony L. Yaksh
    Pages 165-195

  10. Dorsal Horn Neurons and Their Sensory Inputs

    • Fernando Cervero
    Pages 197-216

  11. Spinal Substrates of Visceral Pain

    • Robert D. Foreman
    Pages 217-242

  12. Ascending Somatosensory Systems

    • William D. Willis Jr.
    Pages 243-274

  13. The Spinal Pathways Contributing to the Ascending Conduction and the Descending Modulation of Pain Sensations and Reactions

    • Charles J. Vierck Jr., Joel D. Greenspan, Louis A. Ritz, David C. Yeomans
    Pages 275-329

  14. Sensory-Discriminative Capacities of Nociceptive Pathways and Their Modulation by Behavior

    • Ronald Dubner, M. Catherine Bushnell, Gary H. Duncan
    Pages 331-344

  15. Detection Thresholds of Cutaneous Sensations in Health and Disease in Man

    • Peter J. Dyck
    Pages 345-362

  16. Control Systems for Nociceptive Afferent Processing

    • Donna L. Hammond
    Pages 363-390

  17. Modulatory Effects of Descending Systems on Spinal Dorsal Horn Neurons

    • G. F. Gebhart
    Pages 391-416

  18. The Controversial Nature of the Evidence for Neuroplasticity of Afferent Axons in the Spinal Cord

    • Paul E. Micevych, Barbara E. Rodin, Lawrence Kruger
    Pages 417-443

  19. The Question of How the Dorsal Horn Encodes Sensory Information

    • Donald D. Price
    Pages 445-466

  20. Aspects of Sensory Processing through Convergent Neurons

    • Daniel Le Bars, Anthony H. Dickenson, Jean Marie Besson, Luis Villanueva
    Pages 467-504
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About this book

Some 29 scientists from the fields of neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neu­ rophysiology, neuropharmacology, and behavior have contributed their ef­ forts to this testimonial on behalf of the contributions made by Dr. F. W. L. Kerr to science and to those with whom he interacted. The intention of the contributors to this volume was to deal with the manifold advances that pertain to the substrates in spinal cord relating to the processing of sensory infor­ mation, a subject that in one form or another provoked time and again Kerr's native enthusiasm for research. The organization of the book follows a natural course from the peripheral innervation of the somatic and visceral organs (Winkelmann, Chapter 2) to the effective stimuli that activate these fibers and give rise to sensation under normal and pathological conditions (Campbell and Meyer, Chapter 3; Dubner and colleagues, Chapter 13; Dyck, Chapter 14) to the course these afferent systems take to enter the spinal cord (Coggeshall, Chapter 4) and to the organization of the systems through which this afferent information reaches the brain (Willis, Chapter 11; Vierck and colleagues, Chapter 12).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departments of Neurosurgery and Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

    Tony L. Yaksh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spinal Afferent Processing

  • Editors: Tony L. Yaksh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4994-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4996-9Published: 15 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4994-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 550

  • Number of Illustrations: 116 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neurosciences

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