News tagged with pain perception
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Gene discovery explains how fruit flies retreat from heat
A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Acute pain is eased with the touch of a hand
There may be a very good reason that people naturally clutch their hand after receiving an injury. A new report published online on September 23 in Current Biology shows that self-touch offers significant relief for acute ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Switch off enzyme to control chronic pain, say researchers
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has developed a new drug targeted at parts of the brain and spinal cord associated with pain perception, which may more effectively control chronic pain caused by nerve injuries.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Acupuncture changes brain's perception and processing of pain
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have captured pictures of the brain while patients experienced a pain stimulus with and without acupuncture to determine acupuncture's effect on how the brain ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Pain: Why it's 'ow' for me and 'YOW!' for you
Ever noticed how two people can suffer from back pain, say, but one will moan and groan and take to bed while the other will get up and about and on with life? Pain specialists have often noted that conditions that seem ...
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Imaging the hypnotized brain: Neural mechanisms of suggested paralysis
Although there is no doubt that hypnosis can impact the mind and behavior, the underlying brain mechanisms are not well understood. Now, new research provides fascinating insight into the specific neural effect of the power ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Holy $#!! Swearing can actually help you, study says
You know how you yell and curse and say bad things when you drop a hammer on your foot or burn your hand on a stove?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Hurts so good: Chronic pain changes brain response to acute pain
New research reveals why a stimulus that healthy human subjects perceive as a reward might be processed quite differently in the brains of humans suffering from chronic pain. The study, published by Cell Press in the April15 ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Why does feeling low hurt?
When it comes to pain, the two competing schools of thought are that it's either "all in your head" or "all in your body". A new study led by University of Oxford researchers indicates that, instead, pain is an amalgam of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 07, 2010 |
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DREAM: One gene regulates pain, learning and memory
The DREAM-gene which is crucial in regulating pain perception seems to also influence learning and memory. This is the result of studies carried out by researchers in Seville, Spain, and Vienna, Austria. The new findings ...
Jan 15, 2009 |
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ATS issues statement on disorder of respiratory and autonomic nervous system regulation
The American Thoracic Society has released a new official clinical policy statement on congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a disorder of respiratory and autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation. The ANS regulates ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 12, 2010 |
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