I read with interest the chapter, “Activity-Dependent Central Sensitization and Synaptic
Plasticity,” in the recent review article by Latrémolière and Woolf
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in The Journal of Pain. I noticed a number of issues in that chapter which deserve
some discussion. These include the concept of synaptic long-term potentiation in pain
pathways and its relation to the more general phrase “central sensitization.”To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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