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The practice of cognitive control is a psychological approach that emphasizes the ability to focus one’s attention towards desirable behaviors while simultaneously inhibiting or reducing the occurrence of undesired behaviors. This is achieved through a sustained mental effort that requires the use of attentional resources to strengthen desirable behaviors and suppress unwanted behaviors.  

The inception of a medical directive, comprising the authoritative directive “take.”  

A theoretical interpretation of the mechanisms of pain that pro¬ poses that pain is a result of the orderly activation of a chain of neurons all of which are concerned with detecting and transmitting pain-related information. The emphasis of the specificity theory is on the type of neuron activated by a painful stimulus and on…

Stimulation of brain regions aimed at reducing pain.  

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord that aims to reduce pain.  

Process whereby information is encoded in the pattern of action potential impulses.  

The conversion of thermal or other stimuli into electrical impulses.  

Disorders characterized by the immune system broadly attacking the body’s own cells and tissues.  

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for the fight-or-flight response and supports the energy mobilization and expenditure state.  

A primary system of the fight-or-flight response that involves the hypothalamus commanding the sympathetic nervous system to stimulate the adrenal medulla to secrete the catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine.