5.4 Pain

Question 1

Major pathway for transmission of pain and thermal sense from majority of dermatomes (except face and oral cavity)

Answer 1

Lateral Spinothalamic Tract (STT)

Question 2

Pathways responsible for generation of automatic, behavioral, and affective components of pain or activation of endogenous analgesic mechanisms

Answer 2

Spinoreticular and Spinomesencephalic Tracts

Question 3

Pathway for transmission of pain and temperature from face and oral cavity

Answer 3

Ventral Trigeminothalamic Tract