News tagged with pain response
Research uncovers promising target to treat chronic abdominal pain
Mar 02, 2009 |
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High levels of a protein linked to the way pain signals are sent to the brain led to a decrease in abdominal pain in a recent study in mice.
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Better tools needed for assessing infant pain
Jun 24, 2008 |
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Currently used pain assessment tools may be underestimating the pain response in infants according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine this week. Dr Slater and colleagues (University College London ...
Probing Question: Do women have a higher pain threshold than men?
Nov 13, 2008 |
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It’s a familiar sitcom scene: A woman in labor shows Herculean strength while her “birth coach” husband faints dead away.
Infants' pain response to immunization varies based on which vaccine is first
May 04, 2009 |
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Infants who receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) following the combination vaccine for diphtheria, polio, tetanus, pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae type b (DPTaP-Hib vaccine) appear to experience less pain ...
Study finds Zen meditation alleviates pain
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Zen meditation - a centuries-old practice that can provide mental, physical and emotional balance - may reduce pain according to Université de Montréal researchers. A new study in the January edition of Psychosomatic Me ...
Chili peppers help to unravel the mechanism of pain
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers, is most often experienced as an irritant, but it may also be used to reduce pain. A new work published by Drs. Feng Qin and Jing Yao in this week's PLoS Bi ...
Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo response,” or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, ...
Common migraine pain condition also prevalent in cluster headache
May 27, 2009 |
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A pain condition common in people with migraines also has a high prevalence in patients with cluster headache, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Jefferson Headache Center at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.
Fish may actually feel pain and react to it much like humans
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fish don't make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a Purdue University researcher believes they feel that pain all the same.
Researching the power of the placebo effect in arthritis patients
Aug 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People with arthritis are to take part in new research carried out at The University of Manchester to find out more about how the placebo effect works.
Pretermers bounce back from pain with a cuddle
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Research published today in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics suggests that very preterm babies, born between 28 and 31 weeks, could benefit from skin-to-skin cuddling with their mother before and during painful proced ...
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