Melzack

Drs. Melzack and Wall determined that chemical gates in the spinal cord control pain signals from the body to the brain, depending largely on patients 'emotional states.

Stress So Bad It Hurts -- Really 2009

When we look at the science of pain, especially at what has happened since the publications of Melzack and Wall's (1965) and Melzack and Casey's (1968), which revolutionized the scientific research on pain, we see that the science of pain has increasingly conceived of pain as less like perception of an objective reality and more like emotions by first drawing the sensory/affective distinction and then emphasizing more and more its affective aspect.

Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

People feel pain not at the point of injury but instead in their brain through a pathway that travels through the spine, Melzack proposed.

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::: Apropos of pain or pain medicine, it's painful to discover that my copy of Melzack

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

In another project, Melzack and a colleague developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire which measures the sensory and emotional aspects of pain rather than merely assigning a number to how badly it hurts.

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Such observations led to research that shaped the way doctors view and treat pain - research that won Melzack the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.

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::: Apropos of pain or pain medicine, it's painful to discover that my copy of Melzack

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

In 1965, Melzack proposed a "gate control" theory of pain, based on an idea that people feel pain through a pathway that travels through the spine.

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Melzack R (1975) The McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods.

PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

And with a colleague, Melzack developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire to measure the sensory and emotional aspects of pain instead of simply assigning a number to how bad it hurts.

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