Author : Troels Staehelin Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931092183
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (921 download)
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Pain by : Troels Staehelin Jensen
Download or read book Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Pain written by Troels Staehelin Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the August 1996 congress, with sections on pain in society, transition of pain from acute to chronic, neurobiology of persistent pain, pharmacology of pain, neurotrophic factors and pain, quantitative measures of pain, musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, psychosocial factors in pain, cancer pain, new insights into opioid analgesics, processing and imaging of pain, and pain in infants, children, and the elderly. Specific topics include cultural influences on pain, the nociceptive system, the pharmacology of new agonists and antagonists in peripheral nociception, and cloned opioid receptors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR