The nurse explains that transmission of impulses from the spinal cord to the brain can be controlled by the:
1. central nervous system.
2. gate-control system.
3. somatic system.
4. afferent nervous system.
4
Pain as a cognitive sensation is carried via the afferent system according to the gate-control system theory.
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