Exam 15: Pain, Temperature Regulation, Sleep, and Sensory Function

Release (increase) of epinephrine increases body temperature by increasing:

Which endogenous opioid is located in the hypothalamus and pituitary and is a strong μ-receptor agonist?

Where is the major relay station of sensory information?

How does glaucoma cause blindness?

Coronary artery disease is most affected by _____ sleep.

Depression frequently accompanies acute pain experiences.

Massage therapy relieves pain by stimulating the _____ that close the pain gate.

Fever is a complex, integrated cascade of behavioral, neurologic, and endocrine responses to an exogenous pyrogen.

Match the types of chronic pain with its description. Types of pain may be used more than once. -Pain that results from tumor infiltration of nerve tissue; trauma or chemical injury to the nerve; or damage from radiation, chemotherapy, or surgical sectioning of the nerve

Individuals who recover from heat exhaustion may have permanent damage to the thermoregulatory center.

_____ pain is a warning of actual or impending tissue injury.

The gate theory of pain control states that a "closed gate" increases pain perception.

Which neuropeptide promotes wakefulness?

The nociceptors are at the ends of the large myelinated efferent neurons.

The fingers are more sensitive to pain than the back because the fingers have more nociceptors to pain.

Early treatment of fever is important because fever has no therapeutic benefit.

_____ is/are characterized by sudden apparent arousal in which a child expresses intense fear or another strong emotion while in a sleep state.

Pain _____ is the duration of time or the intensity of pain that a person will endure before outwardly responding.

Which type of nerve fibers transmit pain impulses?

Open-angle glaucoma occurs because of _____ humor.