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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Painlessness"”.
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Investigation into the Molecular Biology of Human Genetic Sensory Disorders of Painlessness and Itch
… chronic pain, one of which is the research of painlessness mechanism. Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a genetic sensory disorder in which the individuals are painless since birth. Various genes have been identified to be associated with CIP, but there are also several painlessness …
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Exploring Pain Neurobiology: Molecular Investigation of Genetic Sensory Disorders
… in this gene that cause global, lifelong painlessness, homozygous polyalanine expansions within a discrete range lead to facially-localised, enhanced itch in childhood (Midface Toddler Excoriation Syndrome – MiTES). Observations of the CIP- and MiTES-associated polyalanine expansion …
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Some Aspects of Practical Reasoning in Epicurean Ethics
… that pleasure has a natural limit, namely painlessness. To understand better how Epicurus’ calculus worked, I investigate the role of duration in assessing pleasure and argue that the inconsistencies in his position can be explained as an attempt at reconciling hedonism with a commonly …