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Title: Mind can control allergic response
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20121801-23018.html
Published: Jan 21, 2012
Author: staff
Post Date: 2012-01-21 06:30:07 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 103
Comments: 3

You – or more accurately, your brain – has control over how allergic your skin is, suggests new research.

A team of neuroscientists have found that if someone has a lesser sense of ownership over a part of their body, their immune system also responds differently to that body part, treating it as 'non-self' rather than 'self'.

These findings have direct implications for understanding autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions characterised by a disrupted sense of ownership over one’s body, such as stroke, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, neuropathic pain, anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

In two different experiments, Prof Lorimer Moseley and his team from Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of South Australia delivered histamine – the chemical the body produces when it is having an allergic reaction – to the arms of healthy volunteers while they were under the illusion that their real arm had been replaced by a rubber one.

They compared the size of the allergic response on the arm that had been 'replaced' to the response on the other arm, and also to the response on both arms during a control condition that had no illusion.

They found that during the illusion, the response to histamine was bigger on the arm that had been replaced by the rubber one.

"This remarkable effect of a histamine response confined to one arm and dependent on the illusion might be a kind of neglect involving the immune system," says Prof Moseley.

The finding builds on another discovery by Prof Moseley's team that the rubber hand illusion induces a small drop in blood flow and therefore skin temperature in to the real, 'disowned' hand.

"Such a finding is particularly relevant to the immune system because a primary role of the immune system is to discriminate self from non-self," says Prof Moseley.

"In this instance, the innate immune system is being up regulated in a manner consistent with rejection of the replaced hand."

"These findings strengthen the argument that the brain exerts some kind of control over specific body parts according to how strongly we own them,'' he says.

The paper was published in Current Biology.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Mind control allergic response

Mind Control = menta govern (government) - allergic response = REVOLUTION !

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again."

"However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." [Josiah Stamp]

noone222  posted on  2012-01-21   7:15:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

no it cant or i would have been able to control snotting all over alicia in the 7th grade when i ask her out while she was holding her cat because my mind was all about getting with her and not on the allergys but it didnt work :-)

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freepatriot32  posted on  2012-01-21   7:55:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All, *Humor-Weird News*, *Agriculture-Environment* (#2)

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freepatriot32  posted on  2012-01-21   7:56:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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