List of Figures

A Basic Behavior Model

A Basic Learning Model

A Signal from the Big Toe

A Signal from the Big Toe

A converging neural circuit

A diverging neural circuit

A neuron

A neuron

A receptive field

A sensory neuron

A simple neural circuit

A spinal nerve

A spinal nerve

Adaptation of mechanoreceptors

Arborization of afferents in the dorsal horn

Arborization of afferents in the dorsal horn

Ascending paths of the pain matrix

Ascending paths of the pain matrix

Basal ganglia and related structures

Correlation doesn't imply causality

Cross section of the spinal cord

Cross section of the spinal cord

Crossed extensor reflex

Dermatomes

Dermatomes

Exciting and inhibitory output

Flexor reflex

Gate control model

Mechanoreceptors with different ranges of activation

Muscle stretch reflex

Neuromatrix Model of Pain Processing

Overlapping receptive fields

PAG-RVM pain pathways

Placebo effect and treatment effect

Regression to the mean

Reverberatory neural circuit

Sensory and Motor Neurons

Sensory homunculus

Sensory homunculus

Sensory homunculus

Sensory homunculus

Some Receptor Endings

Some correlations

Spinal nerve roots

Spinal nerve roots

The Autonomic Nervous System

The Brain Stem

The Systems Context of Behavior

The human brain

The laminae of Rexed

The laminae of Rexed

The somatic nervous system