Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Responses of Slowly Adapting Cutaneous Mechanoreceptive Afferent Fibres to Three-dimensional Tactile Stimuli; Pain Due to Nerve Injury: The Role of Nerve Growth Factor; The Primary Nociceptive Neuron: A Nerve Cell with Many Functions; Evidence for the Presence of a Visceral Pain Pathway in the Dorsal Column of the Spinal Cord; Transmission Security across Central Synapses for Tactile and Kinaesthetic Signals; Processing of Higher Order Somatosensory and Visual Information in the Intraparietal Region of the Postcentral Gyrus
Summary
Provides an exciting account of our current understanding of brain mechanisms responsible for sensory and perceptual experience in the areas of touch, kinesthesia, and pain
