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Title: Which of the following is FALSE regarding the research of Melzack and Wall on the topic of pain?
Post by: derin-darbe on Jul 10, 2017
Which of the following is FALSE regarding the research of Melzack and Wall on the topic of pain?
A) Their theory explains the variance in pain thresholds among infants, children, and adolescents from different cultures.
B) They believe that messages from the brain and spinal cord can prevent pain messages from getting to the brain thus having an effect on pain perception.
C) Their theory helps explain why some athletes can continue to play their sport and not experience the pain until some time after the injury.
D) They believe that there is an area of the spinal cord that is responsible for preventing or allowing pain messages to reach the brain.
E) They came up with the gate-control theory of pain.


Title: Re: Which of the following is FALSE regarding the research of Melzack and Wall on the topic of ...
Post by: interzis on Jul 10, 2017
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