Pain Imaging (Progress in Pain Research and Management Series Vol. 18)

Clinicians and scientists engaged in pain treatment and research face the challenge of coming to terms with rapidly accelerating developments in the field of pain imaging. Even those who are not actively engaged in pain imaging research will ultimately need to consider the results of such studies in order to make effective decisions in the clinical setting and to plan and conduct their own research. Pain Imaging aims to meet these needs by providing physiological and methodological background, by reviewing critically some of the contributions made to the pain imaging literature, and by suggesting possible directions for future research and applications of pain imaging.

Kenneth L. Casey, MD, completed clinical training in neurology at the University of Michigan, where he has served on the faculty since 1966.

M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD, is Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, where she also serves as Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry and as Harold Griffith Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology.