Pain

Preface. Acknowledgements. IASP Presidential Address. Current status of the field of pain and of IASP. Section 1. 1. Address of incoming IASP President. 2. The John J. Bonica distinguished lecture: The gate control theory 25 years later: new perspectives in phantom limb pain. Section 2. Acute Pain 3. Central mechanisms of acute pain. 4. Neurohumoral response to surgery and pain in man. 5. Prevention of postoperative pain. 6. The treatment of postoperative pain. 7. Pain and inflammation. 8. Evidence of cutaneous afferents that are insensitive to mechanical stimuli. 9. Differences in augmenting effects of various sensitizing agents on heat and bradykinin responses of the testicular polymodal receptor. 10. Local opioid receptors mediating antinociception in inflammation: endogenous ligands. 11. A comparison of nurse-administered and patient-controlled analgesia. Section 3. Pharmacology of Pain. 12. Excitatory neurotransmitters and pain. 13. The nociceptive afferent neurone as a target for new types of analgesic drug. 14. Afferent-mediated nociceptive effects of intravenous serotonin in rats: peripheral pathways and receptor pharmacology. 15. Interactions of chi and delta opiates in the production of analgesia in animals and humans. 16. Modulation of mu opioid potency and efficacy by opiod delta agonists: dissociation of antinociception from development of antinociceptive tolerance. 17. Mechanism of inhibitory action of enkephalins, norepinephrine, (-)-baclofen and somatostatin in the spinal dorsal horn: an in vitro study. 18. Novel methods of analgesic drug delivery. 19. Morphine pharmacokinetics in children following acute burns and after recovery from burns. 20. Distinct central nervous system involvement of paracetamol and salicylate. 21. American pain society quality assurance standards for relief of acute pain and cancer pain. Section 4. Psychological and Psychiatric, Aspects of Pain. 22. Psychological and social factors predicting responses to pain treatment. 23. An investigation of personality structure and other psychological features in patients presenting with low-back pain: a critique of the MMPI. 24. Coping and chronic pain. 25. Comprehensive assessment and treatment of chronic back-pain patients without physical diabilities. 26. The assessment of psychiatric illness of physicians in patients with chronic pain. 27. Relationships of interpersonal conflict and social support to pain in chronic disorders with and without organic pathology. 28. Quantifying alexithymia and hypnotisability in pain clinic attenders and normal controls. Section 5. Pain Mechanisms. 29. The developmental neurobiology of pain. 30. Neuronal plasticity and pain following peripheral tissue inflammation or nerve injury. 31. Expansion of sensory innervation after peripheral nerve injury. 32 Differential regulation of opioid binding sites in rat spinal cord in an experimental model of chronic pain. 33.