New pain paradigms in the light of neuroscience
Descartes’s theory that pain necessarily came from pathological tissues and that it becomes conscious in the brain has now been eradicated. Today we know that as a result of a perceived harmful stimulus in the tissues, a threat evaluation process is developed that causes a series of central phenomena that will trigger pain as a […]
States of conscience and its various alterations
Alterations in states of consciousness are one of the most dramatic and difficult clinical problems to face. The ancient Greeks already knew that normal consciousness required an intact brain and that an alteration of consciousness meant a neurological failure. The brain is only able to withstand a limited degree of physical or metabolic damage and […]
