Itch: Mechanisms and Treatment

Itch: Mechanisms and Treatment
ISBN-10
1466505443
ISBN-13
9781466505445
Series
Itch
Category
Medical
Pages
494
Language
English
Published
2014-02-25
Publisher
CRC Press
Authors
E. Carstens, Tasuku Akiyama

Description

Advances in itch research have elucidated differences between itch and pain but have also blurred the distinction between them. There is a long debate about how somatic sensations including touch, pain, itch, and temperature sensitivity are encoded by the nervous system. Research suggests that each sensory modality is processed along a fixed, direc

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