Nursing

A patient with chronic back pain has been prescribed a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI). How does the PMHNP describe the action of SNRIs on the inhibition of pain to the patient? 

a) “the SNRI can increase noradrenergic neurotransmission in the descending spinal pathway to the dorsal horn”

b) “the SNRI can decrease noradrenergic neurotransmission in the descending spinal pathway to the dorsal horn”

c) “the SNRI can reduce brain atrophy by slowing the gray matter loss in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex”

d) “the SNRI can increase neurotransmission to descending neurons”

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