Why is pain considered an subjective sensory experience and not an objective sensory experience?

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A: A traumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts the brain's regular functioning. When brain neurons are…

Q: Which sensory influence directly stimulates the emotional and memory centers of the brain?

A: A sensory system is made up of sensory neurons (including sensory receptor cells), neural networks,…

Q: Some people will listen to a record backwards and hear hidden messages. Because the phonemes are…

A: Introduction Perception Is The Process Of Organising, Identifying, And Interpreting Sensory…

Q: n your own words, describe how pain is perceived in the brain?

A: Our nervous system has a sensory system that consist of sensory receptors or afferent neurons that…

Q: Describe the four conditions that must be met ineach sensory experience.

A: Sensory capabilities are one of the most important senses in our body. These senses are responsible…

Q: What are the three levels of sensory integration?

A: Sensory integration is an innate neurobiological process that refers to the integration and…

Q: Why Pain differs significantly from the other somatosensory modalities?

A: Introduction: The somatosensory system works by processing the information about and representing…

Q: How is The vestibular sense important in nursing practice?

A: The vestibular sense, also called the sense of balance, is crucial in nursing practice as it has a…

Q: Define and describe exteroceptors, interoceptors, and proprioceptors in terms of the general…

A: Sensory receptors are basically transducers that respond to a stimulus by changing it into a…

Q: The cotton ball in the hand lab procedure involved a process called sensory adaptation. This is the…

A: Sensory adaptation is a peculiarity where sensory receptors become less receptive to constant or…

Q: What structure is at the core of how all senses “sense” the environment?

A: Introduction :- The senses are the physiological capacities of organisms that provide data for…

Q: How would changes in grey matter (number of connections) and white matter (myelination of the…

A: Introduction Grey matter- It consists of cell bodies and non-medullated nerve fibers. White matter-…

Q: You are driving at night on a two lane road, and you see a bright light. The light pass through your…

A: The gastrocnemius muscle is the muscle which is superficial two-headed muscle that is in the back…

Q: What is the difference between "phonological awareness" and "phonemic awareness"?

A: Phonemes are the smallest units comprising spoken language. Phonemes combine to form syllables and…

Q: Explain the purpose of integration and sensory adaptation.

A: Sensory adaptation is the reduction of sensitivity or sensory functions of a nerve to a particular…

Q: Suppose you suffer a cut through the spinal cord on the right side only. For the part of the body…

A: Sensations are elementary awareness of stimulation. There are very specific sensory receptors for…

Q: Which of the following tracts and decussation is correctly matched? Lateral pyramidal tract –…

A: Correctly matched tracts and decussation is lateral pyramidal tract with spinal cord. Decussation…

Q: What sensory pathway (tract) transmits pain sensation to the brain? Does anesthesia eliminate the…

A: Sensory pathways refer to the neural pathways by which sensory information from the peripheral…

Q: Where does the process of sensation occur in the body?

A: The passive mechanism of getting knowledge from the outside world into the body and to the brain is…

Q: Define  the terms Nonpain Imagery, Pain Redefinition, explain how each plays a role in managing and…

A: Pain can be sensed by nociceptive,neuropathic and mixed signals from the body.

Q: Some individuals with phantom limb syndrome will report feeling unusual sensations when their faces…

A: After undergoing a process of amputation, some people tend to still feel the sensation of the limb…

Q: As a result of injury of the spinal cord the victim had a loss of tactile sensitivity, sense of body…

A: There are 31 spinal nerves that emerge out of spinal cord carrying both sensory and motor sensation.…

Q: In the _____ pathway involving slow pain, the first neuron passes from a pain receptor to the…

A: The functioning of the human body is regulated by the coordinated activity of many different…

Q: How do acute pain and chronic pain differ?

A: Uncomfortable sensations in the body are described by a general term known as pain. The nervous…

Q: In the following diagram, "First Pain" represents activity of, fibres, whereas "Second Pain"…

A: Pain is referred to as a primary human instinct which can be briefed as a distressing sensation or…

Q: A patient suffered a loss of two-point discrimination and proprioception on the right side of the…

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Q: Where does central processing first occur along the auditory pathway? Tympanic Membrane Cochlear…

A: Introduction Auditory messages are conveyed to the brain via two types of pathway:  primary auditory…

Q: How do the sensory systems help to maintain homeostasis by providing the CNS with information about…

A: The nervous system of the body is responsible for the control and coordination in the body. The…

Q: Following a motorcycle accident, the victim loses the ability to move the right leg but has normal…

A: The spinal cord is the long tubular structure on the dorsal side of our body that is associated with…

Q: A hypercomplex visual cortical cell detects motion. detects angles and line ends. detects straight…

A: The complexities of the Visual Cortex are streamlined by understanding that the neurons of this…

Q: What is referred pain, and why do we experience it in this way?

A: Referred pain occurs when the sensation of pain is perceived at a location other than the actual…

Q: Environmental input to different sensory systems affects different neuroanatomical pathways.…

A: Sensory pathways are an essential component of the nervous system, allowing us to receive and…

Q: The concept of “labeled lines” states that each nerve input to the brain reports only a particular…

A: The sensory receptors present on the sensory organs (eyes, ears, nose etc) that receive a particular…

Q: Why is the sense of gravity considered a sense of equilibrium?

A: In the human ear, sound enters the outer ear and vibrates the three bones of the middle ear (hammer,…

Q: What is an example of an unconscious response to visual information?

A: What are people's reactions to the world? Conscious and unconscious responses to stimuli are…

Q: Which of the following sensory modalities would not be directly affected by a defect in the…

A: Thalamus, present in the diencephalon, is essential for the transmission of sensory information. It…

Q: What are two differences between nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain?

A: Light, smell, flavor, feel, noise, balancing, in the case of sensory biology, or at places close to…