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.
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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.