The Nature and Symptoms of Pain

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