Alfred Goldscheider
German neurologist
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theories of pain
- In pain: Theories of pain
In the 1890s German neurologist Alfred Goldscheider endorsed Sherrington’s insistence that the central nervous system integrates inputs from the periphery. Goldscheider proposed that pain is a result of the brain’s recognition of spatial and temporal patterns of sensation. French surgeon René Leriche, who worked with injured soldiers during World War…
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