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Northerner
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 Posted - 04/16/2009 : 16:57:07
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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.
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sarita
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Posted - 04/17/2009 : 09:17:56
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My laptop wont let me open this file, not even through google and I would love to read it. Can you copy/paste it on this thread? It would really interest me very much.
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sarita
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Posted - 04/17/2009 : 10:44:41
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| never mind, I just made it work. :) |
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pandamonium
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/17/2009 : 10:48:33
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Hi Northerner,
I added a link to it in the post below entitled Broken Hearts and Broken Bones too.
A beginner's guide to psychology: If it's not your mum's fault.... it's your dad's... |
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Common Pathways for Physical & Emotional Pain
