Dementia and Pain SA questions for the exam W10 + 11

Question 1

Nociception

Answer 1

The neural process of encoding noxious stimuli

Question 2

Pain

Answer 2

an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated
with, actual or potential tissue damage

Question 3

Noxious stimuli

Answer 3

a stimulus (i.e. mechanical, thermal or chemical) that is damaging or threatens damage
to normal tissue

Question 4

Sensitisation

Answer 4

ncreased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons to their normal input, and/or recruitment
of a response to normally subthreshold inputs

Question 5

central sensitisation

Answer 5

increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the central nervous system to
their normal or subthreshold afferent input

Question 6

Peripheral sensitisation

Answer 6

Increased responsiveness and reduced threshold of nociceptive neurons in the
periphery to the stimulation of their receptive fields

Question 7

Allodynia

Answer 7

Pain resulting from a stimulus that does not normally elicit pain

Question 8

Hyperalgesia

Answer 8

Increased response to a stimulus that normally is painful

Question 9

The Spinothalamic Tract responsible for what

Answer 9

pain and temperature