Neuroscience · Clinical & Applied Neuroscience
A topic within Clinical & Applied Neuroscience, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Ramachandran & Blakeslee · 1998
Uses unusual neurological cases, especially phantom limb pain, to argue that the brain actively constructs the body it perceives rather than…
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Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory
Melzack & Wall · 1965
Proposes that a spinal 'gate' modulated by both peripheral input and descending brain signals determines whether pain signals reach conscious…
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Ramachandran & Blakeslee
Uses unusual neurological cases, especially phantom limb pain, to argue that the brain actively constructs the body it perceives rather than passively reporting sensation from it.
Melzack & Wall
Proposes that a spinal 'gate' modulated by both peripheral input and descending brain signals determines whether pain signals reach conscious perception, replacing simple pain-pathway models.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Basbaum, Bautista, Scherrer & Julius
Surveys the molecules and circuits that transduce, transmit and modulate pain signals, from peripheral nociceptors to the central sensitisation underlying chronic pain.
link checked 17 Sept 2026