Drug Free Way To Reduce Pain - New Study
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Nostalgia relieves pain. Just looking
Nostalgia relieves pain. Just looking at old photos can cure common aches.
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Scientists in China say taking a break to go down Memory Lane and enjoy nostalgia really does relieve general aches and pains.
According to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, feeling nostalgic helps people overcome low levels of pain by reducing brain activity.
While these feelings have been found to reduce people’s perception of pain, biological mechanisms at work have remained a mystery — until now.
Participants were shown a series of 26 nostalgic images with glimpses of childhood lore from the old days so to speak... while hooked up to an fMRI machine to measure their brain activity.
At the same time, participants were exposed to varying levels of pain using a small heat generator on their right forearm, around 10 centimeters above the wrist.
What? That's on the border of not being a study...
Another group was exposed to a different series of images showing scenes and items from modern life, which did not invite feelings of nostalgia.
Images from yester-year reduced activity in two parts of the brain, known to be involved in pain perception: the left lingual gyrus and para-hippocampal gyrus.
Another region, the thalamus, also played a role in relaying nostalgia information to parts of the brain associated with pain perception.
While there is a wide variety of pain medication for people to choose from, they are potentially addictive and come with the risk of side effects.
The findings suggest nostalgia may be a drug-free way for people to alleviate low levels of pain like headaches – unless of course you're a heartless lightweight who cares about nobody but him or herself.
*Oh, that wasn't in there?
Now disconnect these people from that machine burning their wrists!
There is much more detail in the link in the description below on this and other studies at AT STUDYFINDS.COM
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Videvo – Videvo.net
Kampus Production, Ricardo Esquivel - Pexels.com
More Details: https://www.studyfinds.org/nostalgia-...
That in a report at StudyFinds where we invite you to like and subscribe to get the latest information.
Scientists in China say taking a break to go down Memory Lane and enjoy nostalgia really does relieve general aches and pains.
According to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, feeling nostalgic helps people overcome low levels of pain by reducing brain activity.
While these feelings have been found to reduce people’s perception of pain, biological mechanisms at work have remained a mystery — until now.
Participants were shown a series of 26 nostalgic images with glimpses of childhood lore from the old days so to speak... while hooked up to an fMRI machine to measure their brain activity.
At the same time, participants were exposed to varying levels of pain using a small heat generator on their right forearm, around 10 centimeters above the wrist.
What? That's on the border of not being a study...
Another group was exposed to a different series of images showing scenes and items from modern life, which did not invite feelings of nostalgia.
Images from yester-year reduced activity in two parts of the brain, known to be involved in pain perception: the left lingual gyrus and para-hippocampal gyrus.
Another region, the thalamus, also played a role in relaying nostalgia information to parts of the brain associated with pain perception.
While there is a wide variety of pain medication for people to choose from, they are potentially addictive and come with the risk of side effects.
The findings suggest nostalgia may be a drug-free way for people to alleviate low levels of pain like headaches – unless of course you're a heartless lightweight who cares about nobody but him or herself.
*Oh, that wasn't in there?
Now disconnect these people from that machine burning their wrists!
There is much more detail in the link in the description below on this and other studies at AT STUDYFINDS.COM
Video Credit:
Videvo – Videvo.net
Kampus Production, Ricardo Esquivel - Pexels.com
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