Ronald Melzack
Canadian psychologist (1929-2019) · Canada · On the map · Academics · Died at 90
Ronald Melzack was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall re-charged pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain.
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In 1968, Melzack published an extension of the gate control theory, in which he asserted that pain is subjective and multidimensional because several parts of the brain contribute to it at the same time. During the mid-1970s, he developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire and became a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain. He also became the founding editor of Wall & Melzack's Textbook of Pain.
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Allan PaivioBoth received CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science
Michael C. SetoBoth received CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science
