Kenneth Lyman Casey (born 1935) is

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and professor emeritus of molecular and integrative physiology at the

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, and consultant in neurology at the Ann Arbor Veteran's Affairs Medical Center. Casey studied medicine at the

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(Seattle), did his

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at The New York Hospital ( Cornell Medical Center), and postdoctoral work at the

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(NIH) and

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and joined the

faculty, where he completed his training in neurology. While at McGill, he and

Ronald Melzack Ronald Melzack (July 19, 1929 – December 22, 2019) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall revolutionized pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain. ...

devised the now widely accepted model of the three dimensions of pain.Melzack, R; Casey, KL (1968). "Sensory, motivational and central control determinants of chronic pain: A new conceptual model". In Kenshalo, DR. ''The Skin Senses''. Springfield, Illinois: Thomas. p. 432. He was the first to record the responses of single neurons to noxious stimuli in an awake animal and, with colleagues, to use functional brain imaging to show responses in the human brain specifically to heat pain as compared to increases in temperature. In 2019 Casey published ''Chasing Pain: The Search for a Neurobiological Mechanism''.

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