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Chapter 1. Responses of slowly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptive afferent fibres to three-dimensional tactile stimuli / A.W. Goodwin and H.E. Wheat

Chapter 2. Pain due to nerve injury: the role of nerve growth factor / D.J. Tracey

Chapter 3. Primary nociceptive neuron: a nerve cell with many functions / C. Belmonte and J. Gallar

Chapter 4. Evidence for the presence of a visceral pain pathway in the dorsal column of the spinal cord / W.D. Willis [and others]

Chapter 5. Transmission security across central synapses for tactile and kinaesthetic signals / M.J. Rowe

Chapter 6. Processing of higher order somatosensory and visual information in the intraparietal region of the postcentral gyrus / Y. Iwamura [and others]

Chapter 7. Sensory and motor functions of face primary somatosensory cortex in the primate / G.M. Murray [and others].

Chapter 8. Mechanisms of somatosensory plasticity / P.J. Snow and P. Wilson

Chapter 9. Adaptive properties of local circuits revealed by peripheral denervation / H.D. Schwark

Chapter 10. Limits on short-term plasticity in somatosensory cortex / M.B. Calford

Chapter 11. Cortical plasticity: growth of new connections can contribute to reorganization / S.L. Florence and J.H. Kaas

Chapter 12. Lateral interactions in cortical networks / O.V. Favorov [and others]

Chapter 13. Modulation of somatosensory cortical responsiveness following unexpected behavioral outcomes / R.J. Nelson

Chapter 14. Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields in humans / R. Kakigi.

Somatosensory Cortex - physiology.

Neurons, Afferent - physiology.

Neuronal Plasticity - physiology.

Neuralgia - physiopathology.