Following are the streaming media versions of Purdue Pharma LP's Pain. These videos have been developed to to provide clinicians, healthcare professionals, and interested patients with graphics that beautifully illustrate the physiological processes behind physical pain.

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	Pain - An Illustrated Resource Full Animation - single modules below 1:03 min/6.4 mb Click here
	1. Noxious stimulus and implulse transmission 19 sec/2.1 mb Click here
	2. Dorsal horn 5 sec/1.0 mb Click here
	3. Synapse 9 sec/914 k Click here
	4. Post- synaptic excitation 11 sec/1.0 mb Click here
	5. Stimulation of higher centers 18 sec/851 k Click here

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3. PD Wall, R Melzack, editors. Textbook of Pain (Second Edition). London: Churchill Livingstone. 1989;46-62.

4. Dickenson AH, Reeve A. Neurophysiology of Acute and Chronic Pain. In: Sawynok J, Cowan A, editors. Novel Aspects of Pain Management: Opioids and Beyond. New York: Wiley-Liss. 1999;1-20.

5. DeCasteo L, Meynadier J, Zenz M. Regional Opioid Analgesia. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1991;23-26.

6. Thompson RF. The Brain: A Neuroscience Primer (Second Edition). New York: WH Freeman and Company. 1993;161

7. Lydic R, Baghdoyan HA, editors. Handbook of Behavioral State Control. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms. London: CRC Press. 1999;569-585.

8. Dickenson AH, personal communication. 2002.