Presents an obituary of Ronald Melzack (1929-2019). Melzack died on Sunday, December 22, 2019, at 10:00 p.m. News of his death spread like wildfire through the network of long-time friends and colleagues who had heard of his imminent passing. At that moment, the world lost a compassionate and caring soul, an advocate for chronic pain sufferers around the globe, and a giant in the international pain community. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Lucy (née Birch), their son, Joel, and daughter, Lauren. Ron is known for four major accomplishments: establishing Canada's first multidisciplinary pain center at the Montreal General Hospital with neurosurgeon colleague and friend the late Joseph Stratford; the 1965 publication, in Science, of the gate control theory of pain with the late Patrick Wall; development of the McGill Pain Questionnaire and its derivatives; and later in his career, at 60 years of age, publication of the neuromatrix theory of pain, moving the field beyond the spinal gating mechanism into the brain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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罗纳德·梅尔扎克 (1929–2019)。

发表罗纳德·梅尔扎克 (Ronald Melzack) (1929-2019) 的讣告。梅尔扎克于 2019 年 12 月 22 日星期日晚上 10 点去世，他去世的消息在听说他即将去世的老朋友和同事的网络中像野火一样蔓延开来。那一刻，世界失去了一个富有同情心和关怀的灵魂，一个全球慢性疼痛患者的倡导者，一个国际疼痛界的巨人。他的妻子露西（原姓伯奇）、他们的儿子乔尔和女儿劳伦在他的遗体中幸存了 59 年。罗恩以四大成就而闻名：与神经外科医生同事和已故的约瑟夫·斯特拉特福德 (Joseph Stratford) 的朋友在蒙特利尔综合医院建立了加拿大第一个多学科疼痛中心；1965 年在《科学》上发表的关于已故帕特里克·沃尔的疼痛门控理论；麦吉尔疼痛问卷及其衍生品的开发；在他职业生涯的后期，在 60 岁时，出版了疼痛的神经基质理论，将这一领域从脊髓门控机制转移到了大脑。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。