Ronald Melzack
Canadian psychologist
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theories of pain
- In pain: Theories of pain
…ideas appealed to Canadian psychologist Ronald Melzack and British neuroscientist Patrick David Wall. Melzack and Wall combined the ideas of Goldscheider, Livingston, and Noordenbos with available research evidence and in 1965 proposed the so-called gate control theory of pain. According to gate control theory, the perception of pain depends on…
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