Patterns Of Pain

Creator: CANADA

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Presents a professor of psychology, a zoologist and a doctor discussing the perception of pain in the nervous system. Deals with such phenomena as the absence of pain perception by the wounded in battle, pain control through hypnosis, acupuncture and yoga, thresholds of pain, the body's ability to produce its own analgesic, and surgical techniques for implanting electrodes in the brain to block the perception of chronic pain.


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