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Scientists peered at the brains of people with a baffling chronic pain condition and discovered something surprising. Their brains looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin.
The new finding by scientists at Northwestern University`s Feinberg School of Medicine, begins [...]
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By manipulating the appearance of a chronically achy hand, researchers have found they could increase or decrease the pain and swelling in patients moving their symptomatic limbs. The findings— reported in the November 25th issue of Current Biology — reveal a profound top-down effect of body image on body tissues, according to the researchers.
"The brain [...]
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When treatment options dwindle or are exhausted, terminally ill-patients often opt for pain management and comfort over life-extending therapies. However, a team of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, University of Rochester Medical Center and Unity Health System, report that a lack of thorough understanding about the laws governing end-of-life care may be [...]
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A Japanese research group, led by Prof Makoto Tominaga of National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, has found that the receptor for hot taste of wasabi, Japanese horseradish usually eaten with Sushi, can sense alkaline pH caused by base such as ammonia.
The team reports their finding in Journal of Clinical Investigation on November 13, [...]
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New research suggests that patients with chronic pain are more prone than others are to consider suicide. The increased risk remained even when study authors took the possible influence of mental illness into account.
“This is further evidence that we need to be aware of the heightened risk for suicide in those with chronic pain,” said [...]
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Unusually aggressive youth may actually enjoy inflicting pain on others, research using brain scans at the University of Chicago shows.
Scans of the aggressive youth`s brains showed that an area that is associated with rewards was highlighted when the youth watched a video clip of someone inflicting pain on another person. Youth without the unusually [...]
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The brains of individuals with major depressive disorder appear to react more strongly when anticipating pain and also display altered functioning of the neural network that modifies pain sensitivity, according to a new report.
"Chronic pain and depression are common and often overlapping syndromes," the authors write as background information in the article. Recurring or chronic [...]
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A study has found that people who facially express pain in a more intense way are not exaggerating if their perception of a painful stimulation is controlled. The study conducted by Miriam Kunz is published in the November issue of Pain.
The study was conducted on 20 men and 20 women between the ages of 18 [...]
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