To bring candidates up to date in their knowledge about the mechanisms of pain.

Revision of basic anatomy of the nervous system and neurophysiology.
Mechanisms of Nociception:
- definition of pain
- trandsuction - histology of nerve endings, mechanical stimuli, chemical stimuli
- central transmission - dorsolateral tract, dorsal horn, Rexed's laminae, connections in lamina I to V, EAAs, neuropeptides, NMDA receptors, NK receptors, opiotoids receptors, anterolateral tract, thalamic nuclei, cortical projections, brainstem projects
- modulation - brainstem nuclei, PVG, PAG, NRM, NRGC, LC, LMRF, dorsolateral fumiculis, connections in dorsal horn, DNIC, 5HT, GABA, ENK, endorphins
Somatic and Visceral Pain"
- the structure of joints and fibrous connective tissue, including their biochemistry
- the structure of viscera, as it pertains to pain
- transduction - visceral and deep somatic afferents, inflammation, ischaemic, osteoarthrosis
- transmission - putative visceral pain pathways, paleospinothalamic vs neospinothalamic systems
- referred pain - mechanisms, recognition, dermatomes and myotomes, segmental distribution of visceral afferents
Neurogenic Pain:
- mechanisms of pain in - neuroma, partial neerve injury, deafferentation, dysnociception
- mechanisms of allodynia, hyperalgesia
- mechanisms of post-herpetic neuralgia, trigeminai neuralgia, radicular pain, complex regional pain syndromes

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Undergraduate course in biology, biosciences/physiology that covered structure and function of nerves.

Distance Learning : IT Based
Distance Learning : Paper Based

Email Discussion Group
Self Directed Learning

Email Discussion Group: for 10 hour(s) per Week for Full Term