Article: Acupuncturists don't feel the pain.(News)

Article: Research shows arthritis pain processed in brain
Xinhua News Agency;  March 30, 2007 ;     623 words ... ... rating their perceived pain intensity and unpleasantness ... and acute experimental pain would be processed within the same areas of the pain matrix, but, although both ... the medial and lateral pain systems, arthritic pain ... experimental and arthritic pains activate the medial ...

Article: TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION REDUCES THE BRAIN'S REACTION TO ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... reducing responses in the affective component of the pain matrix. Future research could focus on other areas of the pain matrix and the possible effects of other meditation techniques ...

Article: Transcendental Meditation reduces the brain's reaction to ...
Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... reducing responses in the affective component of the pain matrix. Future research could focus on other areas of the pain matrix and the possible effects of other meditation techniques ...

Article: Arthritis pain processed in fear section of the brain
The Hindustan Times;  April 1, 2007 ;     660 words ... ... neuro-imaging studies that experimentally-induced pain is processed in at least two brain networks, collectively known as the 'pain matrix.' The 'medial pain system' processes the emotional aspects such as ...

Article: Medicine is gaining on pain
Jerusalem Post;  April 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... feel pain." It has been defined by pain experts as "an unpleasant sensory ... and other brain regions called the pain matrix. The stimulus affects specific patches ... cells. Scientists don't know how pain is experienced in the brain. It is ...

Article: Developing concepts in allodynic pain
Clinical Medicine;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... immediately to an external object. Chronic pain is associated with cognitive deficits ... loss and poor concentration. Chronic pain also affects behaviour without the patient's awareness. The pain matrix intimately involves structures in ...

Article: PET Shows Brain Loci of Arthritic Pain Processing
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  June 1, 2007 ;     437 words ... ... states: no pain (control), arthritic knee pain, and experimentally induced knee pain. The authors found that although both types of pain activated the "pain matrix," the parallel networks of brain structures previously identified by functional ...