Migraine, neuropathic pain and nociceptive pain: towards a unifying concept
Tags: chronic pain, neurology, headache, pain problems, head, head/neck
One page on PainSci cites Chakravarty 2010: The 3 Basic Types of Pain
original abstract †Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.
Migraine, neuropathic pain, and nociceptive pain are the three commonest pain syndromes affecting humans.
This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:
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