Pain and Illness


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Pain behavior and illness behavior, the linkage.

Note Text: 805 Sickness behavior, etc.

This sickness behavior consists of immobility, decreased social interaction, decrease in food intake, formation of a taste aversion to novel foods, decrease in digestion, loss of weight (anorexia), fever, increase in sleep, change in endocrine functions (activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis), cognitive....

McMahon, S. B., Koltzenberg, M., Tracy, I., and Turk, D. C., "Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain", Elsevier Saunders, 2013, 201

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