Across
- 6. A self-report instrument for assessing people’s pain
- 7. A region of the midbrain that plays a major role in the perception of and reaction to pain stimuli.
- 8. Discomfort that is typically present all of the time, with varying
- 9. Neurons that connect sensory neurons to motor neurons; association neurons
- 10. Pain that endures beyond the time of normal healing
- 11. Short term pain that results from tissue damage or other trauma
- 14. Purely psychological pain without a physiological basis
- 15. Idea that pain results from a combination of impulses from nerve fibres
- 16. Continuous discomfort, associated with a malignant condition. It becomes increasingly intense as the underlying condition worsens
- 20. Sensory receptors in the skin and organs that are capable to responding to various types of tissue damage
Down
- 1. Structure in the forebrain that acts as a relay centre for incoming sensory information and outgoing motor information
- 2. Naturally occurring neurochemical whose effects resemble those of the opiates
- 3. A phenomenon whereby stimulation to the brainstem causes insensitivity to pain.
- 4. of intensity
- 5. Pain that stems from benign causes and involves repeated and intense episodes of pain separated by periods without pain.
- 12. Opiate like substances the body produces naturally that reduce the sensation of pain.
- 13. Sensory and emotional discomfort, usually related to actual or threatened tissue damage.
- 17. The experience of discomfort as coming from an area of the body other than where the injury exists.
- 18. Characteristic ways people behave when they are in pain.
- 19. An explanation of pain perception that proposes that a neural gate in the spinal cord can modulate incoming pain signals.