- The different types of pain and how they are defined.
- The differences in pain threshold between genders and agegroups.
- The area of the brain that controls body temperature and whatother parts of the body it would use to alter bodytemperature.
- The various methods of heat loss from the body.
- Where exogenous pyrogens come from.
- Define the various types of hyperthermia/ dehydration. Forexample: heat stroke vs. heat exhaustion, Etc.
- Define the different stages of sleep, and what is happeningduring them.
- The various Sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea andsomnambulism.
- The sensory consequences of uncontrolled diabetes.
- Define and describe various visual pathologies and what theywould look like. For example, glaucoma would be an increase inintraocular pressure causing damage to the retina and eventualblindness. Understand why colorblind females are much more rarethan colorblind males.
- The different types of hearing loss.
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