Thursday, October 21, 2010

LOVE RELIEVES PAIN

 

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Passionate feelings of love seem to be a powerful reliever of physical pain. Researchers at Stanford University had 15 students, each at the beginning of a passionately romantic relationship, look at pictures of their partner as a hot probe was applied to their palm.

Seeing the photo reduced the amount of self-reported intense pain the students were feeling by 12 percent. Viewing the image diminished self-reported moderate pain by 45 percent.

The study also involved a brain scan, which revealed this love-based pain relief triggers the same part of the brain that is affected when a person takes morphine or cocaine.

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