About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Nociception, Pain, Equilibrioception, Thermoception, Taste, Sense, Visual system, Group C nerve fiber, Prepulse inhibition, Proprioception, Gustatory system, Sensory deprivation, Aftertaste, Receptive field, Vestibular system, Mechanoreceptor, Muscle spindle, Somatic psychology, Neural adaptation, Electroreception, Active sensory systems, Ampullae of Lorenzini, Prey detection, Sensory neuroscience, Sensory-specific satiety, Solitary chemosensory cells, Cortical homunculus, Posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway, Law of specific nerve energies, Merkel nerve ending, Somatic nervous system, Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, Alliesthesia, Diffuse chemosensory system, Conditioned satiety, Gracile nucleus, Inferior alveolar nerve, Cuneate nucleus, Sensory nerve, Type Ia sensory fiber, Afferent nerve fiber, Sensory cue, Sensation, Sensual play, Chemosensory clusters, Gruneberg ganglion, Special senses, Sensory gating, Sensory overload, Noxious stimulus, Cold sensitivity, Crossmodal, Saddle anesthesia, A Natural History of the Senses, Type II sensory fiber, Range fractionation, Pallesthesia, Stimulus modality, Polymodality. Excerpt: Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." It is the feeling common to such experiences as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting iodine on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone." Pain motivates us to withdraw from potentially damaging situations, protect a damaged body part while it heals, and avoid those situations in the future. Most pain resolves promptly once the painful stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but sometimes pain persists despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body; and sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, dama...
