Wall and Melzack's textbook of pain

Section 1. Neurobiology of pain -- section 2. Assessment and psychology of pain -- section 3. Pharmacology and treatment of pain -- section 4. Clinical states/deep somatic tissue -- section 5. Clinical states/viscera -- section 6. Clinical states/headache and facial pain -- section 7. Clinical states/neuropathic pain -- section 8. Clinical states/cancer pain.;Neurobiology of pain. Peripheral mechanisms of cutaneous nociception -- Molecular biology of sensory transduction -- Inflammatory mediators and modulators of pain -- Microglia: critical mediators of pain hypersensitivity after peripheral nerve injury -- Neuroanatomical substrates of spinal nociception -- Spinal cord plasticity and pain -- Representation of pain in the brain -- Central nervous system mechanisms of pain modulation -- Development of pain pathways and mechanisms -- Genetics of pain -- Animal models of pain -- Ascending projection systems -- Autonomic, endocrine, and immune interactions in acute and chronic pain -- Itch -- Assessment and psychology of pain. Gender differences in pain and its relief -- Epidemiology of pain -- Emotion, motivation, and pain -- Cognitive and learning aspects -- Psychiatric pain-associated co-morbidities -- Studies of pain in human subjects -- Pain measurement in adult patients -- Pain in older persons -- Measurement and assessment of pediatric pain -- Assessment of pain beliefs, coping, and function -- Hypnotic analgesia -- Pain, opiates, and addiction -- Placebo analgesia -- Pharmacology and treatment of pain. Spinal pharmacology of nociceptive transmission -- Methods of therapeutic trials -- Opioids: basic mechanisms -- Opioids: clinical use -- Cyclooxygenase inhibitors: basic aspects -- Cyclooxygenase inhibitors: clinical use -- Antidepressant analgesics -- Mechanism of action of anticonvulsants as analgesic drugs -- Anticonvulsants: clinical -- Local aesthetic blocks and epidurals -- Cannabinoids -- Analgesic drugs in development -- Neurosurgical approaches to the treatment of pain -- Spinal cord and brain stimulation -- The cognitive-behavioral approach to pain management -- A critical appraisal of complementary and alternative medicine -- Clinical states/deep somatic tissue. Joint pain: basic mechanisms -- Basic mechanisms of muscle pain -- Postoperative pain and its management -- Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis -- Fibromyalgia syndrome and myofascial pain syndrome -- Low back pain -- Non-specific arm pain -- Clinical states/viscera. Visceral pain: basic mehanisms -- Thoracic pain -- A clinical perspective on abdominal pain -- Genitourinary pain -- Obstetric pain -- Clinical states/headache and facial pain. Trigeminal mechanisms of nociception -- Acute and chronic orofacial and dental pain -- Migraine and the trigeminal autonomic cephalagias -- Tension-type headache -- Pain in and around the eye -- Clinical states/neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain: pathophysiological response of nerves to injury -- Animal models of experimental neuropathic pain -- Central consequences of peripheral nerve damage -- Phantom limb -- Painful peripheral neuropathies -- Trigeminal and glossopharyngeal neuralgia -- Complex regional pain syndromes -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Central pain -- Pharmacological therapy of neuropathic pain -- Surgery for back and neck pain (including radiculopathies) -- Clinical sates/cancer pain. Cancer pain: causes, consequences, and therapeutic opportunities -- Cancer pain assessment and syndromes -- Analgesic therapy and palliative care in children -- Cancer pain: treatment overview -- Pain control in the care of the dying."