MEDRADSC 3DH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hot Sauce, Neuropathic Pain, Acetylcholine

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 3DH3
• Professor: Lyndsay Simmons

Document Summary

Maslow hierarchy of human needs: pain can be a result of suffering at any level of the period, pain can impact level of functioning at all levels. Pain: an unpleasant sensory or emotional and cognitive phenomenon, uncontrolled pain can lead to depression, loss of control and family problems. Perception of pain is damaged: end result of the neuronal activity of pain transmission, multidimensional experience, when painful stimuli is transmitted multiple cortical areas are activated and responses are elicited, creates measurable references for the pain. Three areas when pain is from: the reticular system, this is the response for the autonomic and motor response to pain, the warning to the individual that they are in danger and need. Remove your hand from that hot sauce pan: also has a role in affective-motivational response to pain such as looking at and assessing injury once it has been removed from the sauce pan, somatosensory cortex. Involved with the perception and interpretation of sensations.