The Nature and Symptoms of Pain

3. of intensity
5. Structure in the forebrain that acts as a relay centre for incoming sensory information and outgoing motor information
6. A self-report instrument for assessing people’s pain
9. Discomfort that is typically present all of the time, with varying
11. Purely psychological pain without a physiological basis
13. An explanation of pain perception that proposes that a neural gate in the spinal cord can modulate incoming pain signals.
14. Continuous discomfort, associated with a malignant condition. It becomes increasingly intense as the underlying condition worsens
16. Naturally occurring neurochemical whose effects resemble those of the opiates
17. A region of the midbrain that plays a major role in the perception of and reaction to pain stimuli.
19. Opiate like substances the body produces naturally that reduce the sensation of pain.

1. The experience of discomfort as coming from an area of the body other than where the injury exists.
2. Characteristic ways people behave when they are in pain.
4. A phenomenon whereby stimulation to the brainstem causes insensitivity to pain.
7. Sensory and emotional discomfort, usually related to actual or threatened tissue damage.
8. Short term pain that results from tissue damage or other trauma
9. Pain that stems from benign causes and involves repeated and intense episodes of pain separated by periods without pain.
10. Sensory receptors in the skin and organs that are capable to responding to various types of tissue damage
12. Neurons that connect sensory neurons to motor neurons; association neurons
15. Idea that pain results from a combination of impulses from nerve fibres
18. Pain that endures beyond the time of normal healing