Sentences with phrase «in painful shock»

It makes me angry when homebirth centers fill the heads of well meaning Moms who only want what's best for their baby, with false surety and then to see the faces of those Moms, disillusioned and in painful shock as they walk into the NICU to see their precious baby because the «Home Birth» went tragically wrong.

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The infamous Milgram experiment, in which subjects believed they were delivering increasingly painful high - voltage shocks to other participants for giving incorrect answers, demonstrated people's willingness to obey an authority figure even when asked to do something reprehensible.

Milgram, who was already famous for the obedience experiment in which study subjects administered painful electric shocks to other study subjects when urged to do so by an authority figure, came up with the letter method as a tool to try to solve the problem in real life.

«In effect, the features of the memory that were previously tuned to predict the painful shock, were now being re-programmed to predict something positive instead,» lead researcher Dr. Ai Koizumi, from the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto, said in the releasIn effect, the features of the memory that were previously tuned to predict the painful shock, were now being re-programmed to predict something positive instead,» lead researcher Dr. Ai Koizumi, from the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto, said in the releasin the release.

Mice lacking normal cilia in parts of their brain that were important for memory had trouble remembering a painful shock.

But we are either shocked by the scientific research or by the impact of painful disease which for some of us comes later in life, hence the «It can never happen to me» lifestyle.

He put a «teacher» in one room in front of a console that supposedly administered painful electric shocks, and a «learner» in the other, bound to a chair and hooked up to wires.

As a prank, the resulting image of a man trying to free himself from the vise - like grip the machine has on his genitalia — complete with a (hopefully) prosthetic member that stretches to painful extremes — is certainly shocking and slightly humorous, but Knoxville and the scenarists offer no reason that the character is in that predicament in the first place.

Inevitably as the shocks — and the painful shouts coming from the learner — grew in intensity every teacher began to balk.

Beddor spent five years writing The Looking Glass Wars, the shocking literary exposé that revealed how Lewis Carroll, author of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,» had willfully misrepresented the story of seven - year - old Alyss Heart, betraying the exiled princess of Wonderland by turning her painful history into a fairytale, when, in fact, it is a dark and dangerous depiction of familial treachery, thwarted love, and the despotic domination of imagination.

Ironically, Milgram's experiments involved naive subjects inflicting what they thought were painful, electric shocks on people who pretended to be in pain.

The change to the atmosphere during a thunderstorm can create a build - up of static electricity in a dog's coat and can even produce painful shocks.

Our Emergency and Critical Care units can assist in all of the following situations requiring immediate medical attention: Auto accidents, traumatic injuries (fractures, bites, burns, lacerations, wounds), respiratory emergencies (choking, difficulty breathing), vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty urinating / defecating, shock, loss of consciousness, dizziness, staggering, tremors, seizures, paralysis, toxic reactions, poison ingestion, labor and delivery problems, blood in urine or feces, swollen, hard, painful abdomen, heatstroke.

Citronella in the eyes is as painful as a quick shock.

If we were listening to someone scrape their fingers on a chalkboard, that's aversive, and it might be enough to get us to stop what we were doing; If they gave us an electric shock in a chair, that's something that would be painful.

Here in Massachusetts, where I practice, many lawyers and commentators are baffled by a judge's decision yesterday to sidestep the First Amendment and block a TV news station from broadcasting a news item that was sure to be shocking for many and painful for some.

«These are cases that can give rise to complex issues, but to avoid the potential chilling effect that might arise from high numbers of prosecutions in cases in which a communication might be considered grossly offensive, we must recognise the fundamental right to freedom of expression and only proceed with prosecution when a communication is more than offensive, shocking or disturbing, even if distasteful or painful to those subjected to it.»

Discovering that your spouse has been unfaithful is likely to lead to shock, disbelief, rage and painful sadness, according to therapist Rona Subotnik in her article «Healing From Infidelity and Depression.»

Due to the shock of betrayal which can be extremely painful, disrupting its victim's normal life in many ways, Trauma therapies like EMDR or somatic experiencing offers assistance to the hurting person to digest the deep emotions that have just aroused.

This is a very painful and shocking discovery but in a way you may feel somehow «relieved» that it is finally out in the open now.