Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica : a Magyar Pszichofarmakológiai Egyesület lapja = official journal of the Hungarian Association of Psychopharmacology
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Neuropsychopharmacol Hung · Mar 2013
Review[New data for the pathomechanism of neuropathic pain: therapeutic evidences].
The present work is based on literature data from PubMed. Neuropathic pain is caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system. ⋯ The clinical symptoms are mainly characterized by burning and throbbing pain and sensory disturbances like hyperalgesia and allodynia. Therapeutic recommendations are antidepressants, antiepileptics, opioids and neuro-stimulation methods.