Further Reading

Hirshberg RM, Al-Chaer ED, Lawand NB, Westlund KN, Willis WD. Is there a pathway in the posterior funiculus that signals visceral pain? Pain 1996; 67:291-305.

Kandel E. et al. Principles of Neural Science. 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2000; 442-443, Chapter 24, 889-897.

Neuroscience In Medicine, Conne et al., 2nd ed., pp. 438-443, 447-450.

Nolte J. The Human Brain: An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy. 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 2002; 208-209, 235-236, 242-247, 270, 296, 301.

Squire L. et al. Fundamental Neuroscience. 2nd ed. San Diego: Elsevier Science, 2003; (25) 673-675, 679, 687.

Willis WD, Westlund KN. Neuroanatomy of the pain system and of the pathways that modulate pain. J Clin Neurophysiol 1997; 14:2-31.

Willis WD, Al-Chaer ED, Quast MJ, Westlund KN. A visceral pain pathway in the dorsal column of the spinal cord. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1999; 96:7675-7679.

Willis WD Jr, Westlund KN. The role of the dorsal column pathway in visceral nociception. Curr Pain Headache Rep 2001; 20-26.