Words are Medicine » self-healing http://www.wordsaremedicine.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:02:50 +0000 en hourly 1 admin admin Just another WordPress weblog No No Verbal First Aid and the Science of Self-Healing http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/2010/01/31/verbal-first-aid-and-the-science-of-self-healing/ http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/2010/01/31/verbal-first-aid-and-the-science-of-self-healing/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:19:50 +0000 Judith Acosta http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/?p=900 See article up on JEMS.com… Verbal First Aid and the science behind it.

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Post-script:  There's a great study that was done in 2005 at the University of Michigan on the placebo effect (Journal of Neuroscience, August 23, 2005  http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2005/placebo.htm)  and pain. We've always known that placebos worked…which is why they're always ruled out in double-blind studies. What we didn't know is how…what architecture responds and is responsible for the pain relief. Their study pointed to the specific brain sites that were activated by imagery alone and simultaneously relieved pain.  

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http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/columns/Acosta/

the_science_of_self_healing.

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Post-script:  There's a great study that was done in 2005 at the University of Michigan on the placebo effect (Journal of Neuroscience, August 23, 2005  http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2005/placebo.htm)  and pain. We've always known that placebos worked…which is why they're always ruled out in double-blind studies. What we didn't know is how…what architecture responds and is responsible for the pain relief. Their study pointed to the specific brain sites that were activated by imagery alone and simultaneously relieved pain.  

This is one more pearl of evidence for Verbal First Aid.

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