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Sakis Koukouvis
November 19, 2012 6:08 PM
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Not to be outdone by "runner's high", music has been found to increase endorphins and increase a body's threshold for pain.
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October 4, 2012 6:00 PM
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Back when I was in sixth grade, I remember reading a little blurb in some science magazine at school that in the future we could receive shots via a method that would feel as soft as a banana peel.
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May 20, 2012 2:15 PM
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Spinal scans reveal the mechanism by which intense thinking can block pain receptors in the nervous system...
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May 10, 2012 5:02 PM
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A few psychologists [have suggested] that the physical pain of a broken leg shares important features with the “pain” of social rejection.
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March 28, 2012 3:24 PM
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In undergrad I took a few neuroscience classes and learned fascinating details about neurological disorders. It seems that if you want to understand how the brain works, one of the best approaches is look at what happens when parts of the brain malfunction. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Sakis Koukouvis
February 27, 2012 5:59 PM
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By Rachael RettnerMyHealthNewsDaily
When a woman falls ill, her pain may be more intense than a man's, a new study suggests.
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Martin Daumiller
February 21, 2012 3:58 AM
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For years scientists have been able to change the emotional tone of a memory by administering certain drugs just before asking people to recall the event in detail. New research suggests that they’ll be able to target and erase specific memories altogether. Here’s how.
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Sakis Koukouvis
February 17, 2012 10:34 AM
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Remember the pain from that broken bone, that arthritic joint, that migraine that knocked you off your feet for days?
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February 2, 2012 4:02 PM
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Most doctors don’t recommend Tylenol for a broken heart or a supportive friend for a headache. But an article published by Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient Naomi I. Eisenberger in the February 2012 edition of Current Directions in Psychological Science shows there is a growing body of evidence that social pain shares some of the neural circuitry that underlies physical pain.
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January 24, 2012 3:35 PM
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Feeling like you’re part of the gang is crucial to the human experience. All people get stressed out when we’re left out. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a feeling of inclusion can come from something as simple as eye contact from a stranger.
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January 18, 2012 6:13 PM
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A nurse's tender loving care really does ease the pain of a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better, if we perceive them to be made with love - suggests newly published research by a University of Maryland psychologist.
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December 6, 2011 4:40 PM
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Acupuncture may help ease the severe nerve pain associated with certain cancer drugs, suggests a small preliminary study published in Acupuncture in Medicine.
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November 24, 2011 2:57 AM
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They say time heals all wounds, and new research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help us overcome painful ordeals.
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November 3, 2012 8:37 AM
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Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago.
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Sakis Koukouvis
May 31, 2012 3:22 PM
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I've been a little disconcerted by the recent appearance in the popular science press of a number of articles seeming to claim that we're just around the corner from being able to erase painful or traumatic memories
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May 17, 2012 6:46 PM
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Training the brain to reduce pain could be a promising approach for treating phantom limb pain and complex regional pain syndrome, according to s neuroscience researcher.
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May 9, 2012 6:38 PM
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Yawn next to your dog, and she may do the same. Though it seems simple, this contagious behavior is actually quite remarkable: Only a few animals do it, and only dogs cross the species barrier. Now a new study finds that dogs yawn even when they only hear the sound of us yawning, the strongest evidence yet that canines may be able to empathize with us.
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February 28, 2012 4:00 AM
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can hurt just as much. Indeed, according to converging evidence reported in a new review in Current Directions in Psychological Science, physical and social pain are processed in some of the same regions of the brain. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Sakis Koukouvis
February 26, 2012 6:50 PM
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Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons on demand, in the laboratory.
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Sakis Koukouvis
February 19, 2012 4:54 AM
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Get up and dance! You'll shed stress, forget pain, amp up your brain—and your sex drive.
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February 4, 2012 4:12 AM
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Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction -- say, doing a puzzle -- relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do.
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Sakis Koukouvis
January 25, 2012 5:41 PM
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Both the placebo and the memory task reduced pain substantially—but independently of one another. What’s more, the placebo did not affect performance on the cognitive task. Together, these findings indicate that placebos do not require executive attention and working memory to be effective. In other words, it’s highly unlikely that expectations bring relief by altering cognitive function.
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Sakis Koukouvis
January 23, 2012 1:38 PM
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Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to Stanford University School of Medicine investigators who mined a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the broad gender difference to a...
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Sakis Koukouvis
January 9, 2012 5:37 PM
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In a large new study, scientists have confirmed that the so-called broken-heart syndrome is real.
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December 4, 2011 4:59 AM
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Janeen Delany describes herself as an "old hippie" who's smoked plenty of marijuana. But she never really dabbled in hallucinogens -- until two years ago, at the age of 59.A diagnosis of incurable...
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