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Converging Pathways of Pain Research at NIDCR

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Pain - Beginnings of Pain Research at NIDCR - This page
  - and the Dentist
  - Pain Ron Dubner and the "Lone Rangers"
Pain A New Multi-Disciplinary Unit
Pain - Behavioral & Neural Responses to Pain
  - The Monkey's Informed Choices
  - Findings from the Behaving Monkey Studies
Pain - Testing Old and New Drugs for Pain
  - Differential Measurement of Pain Perception
  - Testing Old and New Drugs for Pain
Pain - A Laboratory Model For Clinical Pain
Pain - The Biochemistry & Genetics of Pain
  - Mapping the Spinal Cord
  - The Dynorphin Connection
  - Future Directions
Pain - Epilogue
Pain - Exhibit Index

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Introduction

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Pain is a universally known and feared human condition, yet surely it is one of the least understood. Within this century it has been a philosophic problem, an enigma of neurophysiology, a psychological puzzle, a challenge to anesthesiologists, oncologists, nurses, clinicians of all kinds; and much of what we now think we know about pain still seems contradictory and paradoxical.

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Here is another puzzle: how did the most versatile and productive pain research unit at NIH establish itself in the National Institute of Dental Research?

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