The physiology of pain.

Date:
1999
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Description

What is pain? What is it for? The programme explores elements of feeling pain and, in simple terms, explains how nerve stimulus leads to transmission and reception in the brain. This programme contains the following sequences: perception of pain, nociceptors, stomach pain caused by mucosal inflammation, a gangrenous gall bladder, an infected appendix, sensory cortex in the brain where nerve information is received, electrical stimulation (TENS), walking on broken glass and being taught not to feel pain, adrenalin reducing the perception of pain, relaxation therapy, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, nerve damage and influence of psychiatric disease.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom : (not known), 1999.

Physical description

1 video cassette (VHS) (17 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Series

Creator/production credits

Produced by Leeds University Television.

Copyright note

The EBS Trust.

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Where to find it

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