The cutaneous senses: Touch, temperature, pain/itch, and pleasure

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-147

  McGlone, Francis ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONALITY; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PRURITUS; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN NERVE; SKIN PAIN; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TOUCH;

HUMANS; PAIN; PLEASURE; PRURITUS; SENSATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TOUCH;

EID: 70350475733     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.08.008     Document Type: Editorial

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