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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Northerner[/i] [br]Forgive me if any of you have seen this before. This was mentioned in passing in another post. There was a paper published by Eisenberger and Lieberman (two cognitive psychologists at UCLA) who cite neurological evidence of the overlap between physical pain and social pain. Apparently, the same neural pathways in the brain are shared for both physical and social pain. They believe that this has evolved in the brains of animals that require nurturing from a parent, particularly mammals. If the animal feels pain when socially separated, it will try to relieve the pain by finding its parent or with some other type of social interaction. I'm oversimplifying this study with the above paragraph, but this seems to be additional evidence of the mind causing physical pain. Those who want to read the paper and their evidence, which is convincing, go to this page: http://www.scn.ucla.edu/pdf/WhyRejectionHurts(TICS).pdf I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.