Sentences with phrase «of pain responses»

One test, called «temporal summation,» measured the production (facilitation) of pain responses to repeated pain stimuli.

The other test, called «conditioned pain modulation,» assessed the reduction (inhibition) of pain responses to competing pain stimuli.

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Any pain points revealed in the responses (especially reoccuring ones) should be at the top of your list of items to address in the coming year.

These solutions are highly open and secure, and offer enterprise - grade performance in an integrated one - stop environment, aspects of functionality that are designed in direct response to customer pain points.

Spiritual pain is the deepest of suffering in response to the destruction of goodness, justice and beauty in the lives and souls of individuals and communities.

In Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology, Coleman discusses inter-religious responses to the joys and pains of black women's lives.

Once the extraordinary intensity and longevity of grief's pain is actually witnessed, many people (including not a few grievers) simply refuse to believe that an emotional response of this magnitude could possibly be healthy, or be what grieving books, counselors, etc., are referring to («They told me you'd cry, but not this much!»)

The exceptional fidelity, self - sacrifice and affection, as well as the pain, grief and sorrow and the deep spiritual response to the suffering and bereavement that is being expressed, is a sign to the churches of the presence of the Spirit of love in these relationships.

Touch, furthermore, as the sense of bodily pleasure and pain, involves to a high degree the effective response that, according to Whitehead, is more primitive than the clear perception of a distinct and definite object.

Part of your response must be to not wallow in the pain and to not use the pain as an excuse / justification for abusive behavior.

We have seen that, in much recent ethical thought, a self - sacrifice is supposed to acknowledge the other through a response to his or her pain, without reducing that other to our understanding of him or her.

This must be our weepy and terribly profound response to #MeToo: Gently to shine the glory of faithful friendship, just living and merciful response like a sunrise into the broken ruins of pain.

In fact, for twelve years I kept silent about the pain because the «you don't look sick» response confirms a deep fear that I won't be believed and the burden of proof will be on me.

Instead, their heavy drinking is a direct response to the pain of a disintegrating marriage, a severe loss, frustration of a cherished dream, or a temporary depression.

If the person is addicted, the heavy drinking will tend to continue, even if the pain is reduced, since the drinking is the result of a self - perpetuating inner process and not just a response to the pain.

It may be that Mr. R.'s drinking is mainly a response to the pain of a deep, but hidden problem in the R.s» marriage relationship.

Neuroscientist Christian Keysers has done research to show that the brain of those who see others receiving pain themselves have similar neurological responses.

It's entirely possible that all the above questions are addressed with depth and subtlety in actual RE lessons, and that the school's pupils can talk knowledgeably about the nature of the priesthood, the goods of marriage, the purpose of sex, and the many and varied Christian responses to the «problem of pain».

To these prophets, as our records of their words show, response to that voice was accompanied by intense pain; they were only intermittently able clearly to discern what the voice was saying.

The response to this pain is a retreat into frustrated isolation, or an angry attack, either of which increases the sense of distance.

The Church has a responsibility to make sure its response demonstrates love, compassion, and great value to the one whose life has been eviscerated by the pains of abuse.

The response to that scalding sensation is a release of endorphins, our body's way of allowing us to deal with pain.

Additionally, Rozin has found that it is not uncommon for people to like the body's defensive responses, such as the nose and eye tearing that result from eating hot peppers; and he says that people often eat chile at a heat level close to the highest they can tolerate, which means that liking chile is related to pushing the limits of pain and tolerance.

While, I appreciate your response, I assure you no punishment or no amount of humiliation this doctor receives for her stupidity will take away the pain and humiliation she has now caused a mother who has already experienced the worst pain imaginable in having a still birth.

No doubt the response would be that that's a «different» kind of pain, because it is the pain from something being wrong in your body, as opposed to the «pain with a purpose» of labour.

This is generally not recommended because of added pain due to the change in hormonal response.

babies who years later have unexplained fear responses because they receive two rounds of shots before they are 24 hours old even though science has proven that subjecting a newborn to pain can have lifelong psychological affects.

This article shows a tragic lack of understanding of infant pain responses.

Here is the key to natural pain relief: During birth you want to reduce cortisol levels, the hormone produced in response to stress, and catecholamines, the «fight or flight» hormones, produced in response of fear.

Whether in pain, or experiencing some other distress, infants who are crying need assistance to reduce their distress, return their stress response system and the functioning of the HPA axis to a calm state, and train up their vagal nerve for healthful functioning.

Breastfeeding consistently reduced behavioural responses of cry duration and composite pain scores during and following vaccinations.

Research has shown that when the relaxation response is used on a daily basis it can reduce feelings of depression, anxiety and chronic pain, as well as improve blood pressure, immunity and self - esteem.

Also, extremely high blood pressure that can result from the pain response may increase the risk of hemorrhaging.

For some women pregnancy brings unexpected aches and pains from time to time and again pregnancy yoga helps you to be aware of these and adapt healthy safe responses.

Dr. Uvnas Moberg will also describe how simple interventions, such as touch or skin - to - skin contact, can decrease mothers» experiences of pain by affecting the sensory nerves and the upregulation of the oxytocin response.

It's our job as parents to maintain awareness of all the outside factors, like consistent response, consistent environment, and consistent schedule; remain supportive; and make sure the baby is not in pain or sick.

The Authority's action is in response to what it says is the abuse of the medicine used to treat moderate to severe pain.

«In response to this crisis, the Federal Government and NEMA have deployed an insufficient amount of emergency staff and relief materials to ameliorate the pain and suffering of Nigerians affected by this disaster.

The differences were seen in areas of the brain associated not only with disgust, but also with memory retrieval, attention, pain, and innate «gut responses.»

The scent of human men stresses out mice and rats, which changes their pain responses and could affect experimental results.

According to a study published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the measure, called the nociception (pain) level index, allowed physicians to more accurately evaluate responses to painful stimulation in patients under general anesthesia, compared to traditional measures.

Slater and her colleagues observed the same pain - related activity in 12 preterm infants in response to heel pricking, even in the absence of grimacing, one of the traditional behavioral measures of infant pain, but failed to detect it when the babies» feet were anesthetized.

In fact, both of the studies found that when adenosine was turned on in mouse tissue by other mechanisms, the pain response was equal to or better than the response generated by acupuncture.

Since the creation of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index in 1979, tens of thousands of students have filled out this questionnaire while participating in studies examining everything from neural responses to others» pain to levels of social conservatism.

Colloca added, «These findings add a new mechanism to the neurobiology of placebo effects and open up new research directions for understanding the vasopressin system and its implications for pain and stress - related responses..»

Opioid use was also more likely for patients who scored higher on a measure of pain catastrophizing — exaggerated responses and worries about pain — than those with depressive symptoms.

While such experiments aid understanding of the biological and behavioral underpinning of placebo response in experimental (applied) pain, they translate poorly to the clinic, where pain is mainly chronic in nature, Baliki said.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

Looking at patient survey responses, as well as medication orders, age, sex, race, health insurance status, time of arrival at ER, time of wait to see a physician, total length of stay, patient - reported pain levels and year and month of visit, the investigators performed a retrospective analysis of the data.

Their responses were then correlated with a measure of pain tolerance by counting the number of paperclips that they could retrieve from ice - cold water.