Somatosensory Processing: From Single Neuron to Brain Imaging

by Iwamura; Yoshiaki

• ISBN13: 9789057023842
• ISBN10: 9057023849
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-23
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

The diversity of contemporary investigative approaches included in this volume 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.Postgraduate research students in sensory physiology, neurology, psychology and anatomy, and researchers themselves will find that this volume addresses many of the key issues in our attempts to understand the neural mechanisms that mediate sensory experience arising from the body as a whole, the so-called somatic senses, in particular for touch and pain. The volume provides a record of the occasion of the St Petersburg IUPS symposium, chaired by the editors of this volume, and includes some added recent contributions from other leading international figures in the field. Brought together under the sponsoring banner of the IUPS Commission for Somatosensory Physiology and Pain, these scientists with their different experimental approaches seek collectively to understand the brain mechanisms that underlie our own nature and experience.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
Responses of Slowly Adapting Cutaneous Mechanoreceptive Afferent Fibres to Three-dimensional Tactile Stimuli	1	(12)
A.W. Goodwin
H.E. Wheat
Pain Due to Nerve Injury: The Role of Nerve Growth Factor	13	(14)
D.J. Tracey
The Primary Nociceptive Neuron: A Nerve Cell with Many Functions	27	(24)
C. Belmonte
J. Gallar
Evidence for the Presence of a Visceral Pain Pathway in the Dorsal Column of the Spinal Cord	51	(26)
W.D. Willis
E.D. Al-Chaer
M.J. Quast
K.N. Westlund
Transmission Security across Central Synapses for Tactile and Kinaesthetic Signals	77	(24)
M.J. Rowe
Processing of Higher Order Somatosensory and Visual Information in the Intraparietal Region of the Postcentral Gyrus	101	(12)
Y. Iwamura
A. Iriki
M. Tanaka
M. Taoka
T. Toda
Sensory and Motor Functions of Face Primary Somatosensory Cortex in the Primate	113	(18)
G.M. Murray
L.-D. Lin
D. Yao
B.J. Sessle
Mechanisms of Somatosensory Plasticity	131	(12)
P.J. Snow
P. Wilson
Adaptive Properties of Local Circuits Revealed by Peripheral Denervation	143	(10)
H.D. Schwark
Limits on Short-term Plasticity in Somatosensory Cortex	153	(14)
M.B. Calford
Cortical Plasticity: Growth of New Connections can Contribute to Reorganization	167	(20)
S.L. Florence
J.H. Kaas
Lateral Interactions in Cortical Networks	187	(22)
O.V. Favorov
J.T. Hester
D.G. Kelly
M. Tommerdahl
B.L. Whitsel
Modulation of Somatosensory Cortical Responsiveness Following Unexpected Behavioral Outcomes	209	(32)
R.J. Nelson
Somatosensory Evoked Magnetic Fields in Humans	241	(22)
R. Kakigi
Index	263