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Notes

  1. 1.

    International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) definition of pain: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with tissue damage or potential damage or described in such terms.

  2. 2.

    René Leriche, French surgeon, 1879–1955

  3. 3.

    Neuropathic pain: Neurologists use the term “neuropathic pain” only in reference to pain from peripheral and cranial nerves, although the term relates to pain from the nervous system in general.

  4. 4.

    Central neuropathic pain is a subgroup of central pain that is caused by abnormal activity in the CNS that is a result of functional changes in the CNS.

  5. 5.

    5Naloxone: An antidote to opiates that counteracts the pain relieving effect of opioids.

Abbreviations

CNS:

Central nervous system

DLPT:

Dorsolateral pontomesencephalic tegmentum

IASP:

International Association for the Study of Pain

NA:

Norepinephrine

NST:

Nucleus of the solitary tract

PAG:

Periaquaductal grey

RVM:

Rostral ventromedial medulla

SI:

Primary somatosensory cortex

STT:

Spinothalamic tract

VPI:

Ventral posterior inferior (thalamus)

VPL:

Ventral posterior lateral (thalamus)

VPM:

Ventral posterior medial (thalamus)

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