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Wall & Melzack's Textbook of Pain is a medical textbook published by Elsevier. It is named after Patrick David Wall and Ronald Melzack, who introduced the gate control theory into pain research in the 1960s. First released in 1984, the book has been described as "the most comprehensive scientific reference text in the field of pain medicine". [1]
The International Association for the study of pain created the Ronald Melzack Lecture Award in 2010, in recognition of Melzack's exceptional contributions to the field of pain research. [14] In 2011, he wrote the foreword of a Ronald Melzack special issue about the influence of the Melzack's works on understanding of pain and daily practice. [15]
In 1968, three years after the introduction of the gate control theory, Ronald Melzack concluded that pain is a multidimensional complex with numerous sensory, affective, cognitive, and evaluative components. Melzack's description has been adapted by the International Association for the Study of Pain in a contemporary definition of pain. [1]
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He was promoted to full professor in 1960, and while at the Institute met Ronald Melzack, who was to become a long-time collaborator. [3] At Melzack's urging they wrote a paper on the Gate control theory of pain and published it in Brain in 1962; according to Wall it was read by around three people.
While at McGill, he and Ronald Melzack devised the now widely accepted model of the three dimensions of pain. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the first to record the responses of single neurons to noxious stimuli in an awake animal [ 5 ] and, with colleagues, to use functional brain imaging to show responses in the human brain specifically to heat pain as ...
The neuromatrix theory, initially coined by psychologist Ronald Melzack in the 1990s, proposes that there is an extensive network connecting the thalamus and the cortex, and the cortex and the limbic system. [8]
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