Pain Mechanisms (PTRS:7902)

Basic science mechanisms of pain and pain modulation; understanding molecular basis for pain in nociceptive afferents (peripheral sensitization), underlying molecular and neuronal mechanisms of central processing of pain (central sensitization), cortical pain processing, animal and human experimental pain models; readings from past and current literature.

Prerequisites: PTRS:7899.

Requirements: prior neuroscience course. 

2 s.h.