Pain is to ____ as paralysis and absence of pain are to ____.
a. functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder); somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain (pain disorder)
b. functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder); illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)
c. somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain (pain disorder); functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)
d. somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain (pain disorder); illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)
Question 2
Sharon frequently causes diarrhea in her three-year-old daughter by feeding her spoiled milk and rotten eggs. When the child is repeatedly hospitalized, Sharon acts like a very worried and caring mother. Because Sharon is not playing the sick role and receives no obvious reward for her behavior, her appropriate diagnosis is ____.
a. complex somatic symptom disorder with somatization features (somatization disorder)
b. factitious disorder
c. factitious disorder imposed on another
d. malingering
Exploring the functional activity of brain regions by using fMRI scans.
Conduction of pain impulses.
Herniated disk. A herniated disk is a protrusion of the disk’s gelatinous center, called the nucleus
Some common functional groups of biomolecules
Neural pathways for pain