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Title: Study Verifies Power of Positive Thinking
Source: livescience
URL Source: http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ap_051128_placebo.html
Published: Nov 29, 2005
Author: By Lauran Neergaard
Post Date: 2005-11-29 07:13:55 by gengis gandhi
Keywords: Verifies, Positive, Thinking
Views: 356
Comments: 35

Quote of the Day "Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..... and we, kill those people" ~ Bill Hicks

Study Verifies Power of Positive Thinking

By Lauran Neergaard Associated Press posted: 28 November 2005 08:05 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your medicine really could work better if your doctor talks it up before handing over the prescription.

Research is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical -- not just psychological -- effects on your health. Scientists can measure the resulting changes in the brain, from the release of natural painkilling chemicals to alterations in how neurons fire.

Among the most provocative findings: New research suggests that once Alzheimer's disease robs someone of the ability to expect that a proven painkiller will help them, it doesn't work nearly as well.

It's a new spin on the so-called placebo effect -- and it begs the question of how to harness this power and thus enhance treatment benefits for patients.

"Your expectations can have profound impacts on your brain and your health,'' says Columbia University neuroscientist Tor Wager.

"There is not a single placebo effect, but many placebo effects,'' that differ by illness, adds Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti of Italy's University of Torino Medical School, who is studying those effects in patients with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and pain.

The placebo effect is infamous from studies of new medications: Scientists often given either an experimental drug or a dummy pill to patients and see how they fare. Frequently, those taking the fake feel better, too, for a while, making it more difficult to tease out the medication's true effects.

Doctors have long thought the placebo effect was psychological.

Now scientists are amassing the first direct evidence that the placebo effect actually is physical, and that expecting benefit can trigger the same neurological pathways of healing as real medication does. Among them:

--University of Michigan scientists injected the jaws of healthy young men with salt water to cause painful pressure, while PET scans measured the impact in their brains. During one scan, the men were told they were getting a pain reliever, actually a placebo.

Their brains immediately released more endorphins -- chemicals that act as natural painkillers by blocking the transmission of pain signals between nerve cells -- and the men felt better. To return to pre-placebo pain levels, scientists had to increase the salt-water pressure.

"Our brain really is on drugs when we get a placebo,'' says co-researcher Christian Stohler, now at the University of Maryland. More remarkable, some especially strong placebo responders suggest "many brains can actually stimulate that (pain-relief) system more.''

Italy's Benedetti gave Parkinson's patients a placebo and measured the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in a movement-controlling part of the brain. Those neurons quieted down, a decrease in firing of about 40 percent that correlated with a reduction in patients' muscle rigidity -- they moved more easily.

To further prove the power of belief, Benedetti hooked pain patients to a computerized morphine injection system. Sometimes the computer administered a dose without them knowing it; sometimes a nurse pretended to give it. The morphine was up to 50 percent more effective when patients knew it was coming.

Likewise, Parkinson's patients moved much better when they were told that doctors had turned on a pacemaker-like implant in their brains, which blocks tremors, than when it was turned on covertly.

But in a similar experiment with Alzheimer's patients suffering pain, Benedetti found no difference between covert or expected dosing. The results are preliminary, he cautioned a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last month. But it appears that because Alzheimer's robs patients of the cognitive ability to expect a benefit, they need higher doses of painkillers to get as much relief as non-demented patients.

Placebos aren't a substitute for real medicine. But the research suggests maybe doctors should try to manipulate patients' treatment expectations, for at least some hard-to-treat conditions.

"The bigger question is how do we capitalize on the placebo effect,'' said Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University, whose studies suggest some antidepressants have a "placebo-plus'' activity in the brain. "There may be a phenomenon we all have access to.''

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ap_051128_placebo.html

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we create our reality through our beliefs....the placebo effect is the tip of the eyesberg...thus, the intense interest in belief system peddling by societies 'controllers'....if you think you are free, you will never look for an exit...physically, spiritually, emotionally.

dig it.

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christine  posted on  2005-11-29   9:07:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: christine (#3)

POSITIVE THINKING....

1. Hubby isn't a giant pain in my ass
2. Kids are not aliens who desire to live in garbage
3. I do not have too many dogs
4. Foil is not screwed up
5. Life does not suck - it BLOWS
6. I do not want to hack my entire household to pieces with a dull butter knife
7. The Laundry WILL EVENTUALLY get done
8. Life does not BLOW - it REEKS
9. I do not work with Palo Verde's dumber twin

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-11-29   17:53:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#6)

i think you may want to try some feng shui to change the energetic patterns of the house, it does work.

it may be wise to take a small vacation to regain your perspective, the contrast can be enlightening....

then, set a schedule for it...every three months, and on your last vacation, make your plans for the next one.

if you don't take care of yourself, who is to blame? the one you've given power to, by blaming them?

listen to your spirit, your body, it tells you what it wants...it will tell you what it doesn't like....

getting away can help regain that connection and the contrast will help the family members see what they're missing.

i would also look into some change type work for the people who are bothering you in life...if they are unwilling to change, then you may wish to live on property close to where you are, but away enough to not feel drained.

gengis gandhi  posted on  2005-11-29   18:27:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: gengis gandhi, jethro tull, christine, zipporah (#8)

I think you may want to try some feng shui to change the energetic patterns of the house

What? re-arrange the clutter???

it may be wise to take a small vacation to regain your perspective, the contrast can be enlightening

The last time I did that - it involved eletro-therapy and much drooling afterwards - the crayons were nice tho...

if you don't take care of yourself, who is to blame? the one you've given power to, by blaming them?

BUT IT'S THEIR FAULT!!!!!

listen to your spirit, your body, it tells you what it wants...

YES! It wants me to attach a large plastic bag to the tail pipe of my car, start said car and put my head in the hole I just cut in the other end of said plastic bag

getting away can help regain that connection and the contrast will help the family members see what they're missing.

See above comment regarding electro therapy - they LIKE me drooling and uncommunicative

i would also look into some change type work for the people who are bothering you in life...if they are unwilling to change, then you may wish to live on property close to where you are, but away enough to not feel drained.

I already did THAT with my birth family - now I have to run away from the one I gave birth to? Hell - these aliens would find me if I moved to Mars..... Where's the drano???

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#13. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#12)

I know I can. I know I can. I know I can.

82Marine89  posted on  2005-11-29 22:40:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#12)

Oh well :P

Zipporah  posted on  2005-11-29 22:49:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#12)

have you heard of energetic parasites?

i will see what i can find and send it to you.

i just found out an employee of mine's son was being molested by an uncle. he is 5.

there is plenty of pain to go around, but you're needed here, now.

there are a great many who are feeling alienated now, myself included, and i believe we are in the hopi time of great purification...what does not serve your highest good will be brought forth with the purpose being to purge it.

there are a great many of us who are finding the old ways are not working, and we will find the better way....the learning is a personal thing, and many are stuck in experiential loops, meaning they are continuing in stuck patterns, and will remain so until they have gained the learning experience to move beyond these loops.

things will change, they will improve.

also, try some SAMe...it works great for the blues, i use it a couple times each winter. it is an antioxidant, but if you are taking other meds you should check to see that it is acceptable to take.

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