Posted on 05/23/2020 6:25:56 AM PDT by rktman
A study conducted by researchers from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, have found that the amygdala in mice's brain can significantly control their sense of pain.
According to Fan Wang, the lead author of the study and the Morris N. Broad Distinguished Professor of neurobiology in the School of Medicine, recent studies have determined parts of the brain that could 'turn on' pain signals, but this was the first time they were able to pinpoint where pain could be 'turned off.'
The researchers also discovered that general anesthesia also stimulates a specific subgroup of inhibitory neurons in the central amygdala called the CeAga neurons. Although mice have a comparably bigger central amygdala than humans, Wang says she doesn't think there would be any difference in the two brain systems from controlling pain.
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Which parts did Biden have removed in his two frontal lobe brain surgeries?
Acupuncture is a very old treatment for pain..... Chinese
One can believe the researcher traced the paths to the point of convergence in the brain
Probably the same ones as the kennedy daughter so long ago. (and here we thought that was from hair plugs!)
Proof positive that any democrat with half a brain can run for office...
Fixing the pain problem would go a long way toward getting the opioid epidemic under control.
I used to be skeptical of acupuncture but circumstances made me try it out.
These days it helps with the regular headaches more than most things.
My practicioner is back on June 1. I will be there.
Well, well...... first hand testimony.
I have no actual experience with acupuncture
“half a brain” aka ‘a gabby’.
“Fixing the pain problem would go a long way toward getting the opioid epidemic under control.”
Possibly. But pain is a protective/warning mechanism. You can’t just turn off all sensation of pain and not cause other problems.
Pain is there for a reason. Turning it off is like taking the battery out of your smoke alarm.
Keep in mind that I usually very skeptical.
I wouldn’t be a long term patient if there wasn’t something to it.
Ditto my upper cervical chiropractor.
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Excellent point...
I take 6 to 8 OTC pain relief pills for my left knee and back daily...
“parts?”
The whole darned thing is gone.
https://pastorjfreeman.com/2016/06/14/the-gift-of-pain/
I recently read an article that spoke of a doctor named, Dr. Paul Brand. This doctor is a missionary surgeon who heads a rehabilitation branch of America’s only leprosarium. He said, “If I had one gift which I could give to people with leprosy, it would be the gift of pain.”
In this article, he said that, “After years of working with leprosy patients, I learned to exult in the sensation of cutting a finger, turning an ankle, or stepping into a too-hot bath.” He went on to say, “Thank God for pain!” Dr. Brand believes that pain itself, the hurt of pain, is a gift. But what does he mean?
Doctors once believed the disease of leprosy caused the ulcers on hands and feet and face which eventually led to rotting flesh and the gradual loss of limbs. Mainly through Dr. Brand’s research, it has been established that in ninety-nine percent of the cases, leprosy only numbs the extremities. The decay of flesh occurs because the warning system of pain is absent. How does the decay happen though?
Visitors to rural villages in Africa and Asia have sometimes observed a horrible sight, a person with leprosy standing by the heavy iron cooking pot watching the potatoes. As they are done, without flinching he thrusts his arm deep into the scolding water and recovers the cooked potatoes.
Dr. Brand found that abusive acts such as this were the chief cause of body deterioration. The potato-watching leprosy victim had felt no pain, but his skin blistered, his cells were destroyed and laid open to infection.
Leprosy had not destroyed the tissue; it had merely removed the warning sensors that alerted him to danger.
To a person with leprosy, the sensation of sticking their arm into scalding hot water was no different that picking up a stone or putting their hand in their pocket. They simply have no warning system for pain. It was this reality that caused Dr. Brand to see physical pain as a gift to the body, for without it, horrible consequences occur.
WHAT "School of Medicine"...Wuhan?
Guessing the Communist Chinese will be using it for military uses...
*ouch*
OTOH, you don't need even your very bestest friend constantly screaming in your ear at the top of his lungs!
All things in moderation and proportion.
Says the guy who has a toe that's black and blue with red. Apparently I broke it or badly stubbed it without feeling it...
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