The Nature and Symptoms of Pain

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