The Polymodal Receptor - A Gateway to Pathological Pain

T. Kumazawa, K. Mizumura, Lawrence Kruger

Elsevier Science, Jan 1, 1997 - Medical - 547 pages

This volume is derived from a celebration of the career of Professor Takao Kumazawa at Nagoya University and includes papers from investigators throughout the world whose contributions are dedicated to his honour. Topics range from current studies and reviews of the impact of modern molecular biology on the contemporary knowledge of polymodal receptors, to reflections related to the career and lifetime achievements of a pioneer neurophysiologist who has focused on relatively simple modal systems, especially those concerned with deep or visceral sensing mechanisms and their role in the broad behavioral spectrum constituting pain.

About the author

Lawrence Kruger has received several honors including the Lederle Medical Faculty, Wellcome Professor, Fogarty Senior International Scholar, and Javits Neuroscience Investigator Awards. He is the founding editor of Somatosensory and Motor Research and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals. His publications include more than 150 papers and book contributions; he has also recently published an atlas of the rat brain (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and served as editor of volumes in the field of pain. Dr. Kruger is a Professor of Neurobiology and Anesthesiology at the UCLA Medical Center. He received a Ph.D. in Physiology at Yale University and post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins, the College de France, and Oxford University, spending the remainder of his career at the University of California. His research has extended from animal behavioral studies and psychophysics to electrophysiology of sensory pathways and in more recent years to electron microscopy and chemical neuroanatomy relevant to touch and pain systems.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Polymodal Receptor - A Gateway to Pathological Pain; Volume 113 of Progress in Brain Research
• Editors: T. Kumazawa, K. Mizumura, Lawrence Kruger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Elsevier Science, 1997
• ISBN: 0444824731, 9780444824738
• Length: 547 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Neuroscience