Surgery isn't needed to tune the CNS. This study shows that fMRI feedback allows to modulate the pain perception. People (chronic pain pain patients and control subjects) were able to learn to voluntarily deactivate the brain region that links pain perception and emotion, thereby reducing their subjecive painful experience.
BTW, although acute pain is indeed a useful signal, the nervous system sometimes goes awry and becomes permanently sensitzed to pain or even sometimes generates pain. In these chronic pain conditions, the pain becomes the disease, and treating it is a good solution.
Funded primarily by the British Heart Foundation, Professor Julian Paton and colleagues have been working on the problems of hypertension for 12 years. Although the idea that the brain is to blame for high blood pressure is controversial, recent evidence from both animal models and patients supports this.
It's controversial because it's new, and some minds are slow to adapt to new paradigms...</troll>
More seriously, as every new finding/hypothesis it has to be taken carefully, assessed in various ways to ensure it is not a side effect of some other phenomenon.
If you want to know more, please browse the literature:)
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If you want to know more, please browse the literature:)
There are at least two medical definitions of death:
clinical death, when the heart doesn't beat anymore whatever the cause. People in a clinical death state can sometimes be rescucitated.
brain death, when the EEG is flat, as is the carotid blood flow. This happens when the brain has suffered so much ischemic or physical damage that the osmotic pressure rises too high, due to tissue swelling in the closed sapce that is the skull. If the osmotic pressure is higher than the blood pressure, the bood flow is interrupted, and the whole brain tissue dies quickly.
So, yes, suspended animation would formally satisfy the current definition of clinical and brain death, but, since it sounds reversible, it should be a no brainer to change the law to better suit the technology... Either that or consider frozen poeple as technically dead but rescucitable, and protect them with some special laws.
Why does Google set cookies on www.google.com when you access your gmail account? For the purpose of session tracking setting cookies only on gmail.google.com is sufficient.
That's why I always browse Gmail with IE, and everyting else with Firefox (with the CookieCuller extension enabled)..
I know they still can link both surfing sessions with my IP address, but I'm too lazy to reset my connection evertime I want to check my email..
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Surgery isn't needed to tune the CNS. This study shows that fMRI feedback allows to modulate the pain perception. People (chronic pain pain patients and control subjects) were able to learn to voluntarily deactivate the brain region that links pain perception and emotion, thereby reducing their subjecive painful experience.
BTW, although acute pain is indeed a useful signal, the nervous system sometimes goes awry and becomes permanently sensitzed to pain or even sometimes generates pain. In these chronic pain conditions, the pain becomes the disease, and treating it is a good solution.
It's controversial because it's new, and some minds are slow to adapt to new paradigms...</troll>
More seriously, as every new finding/hypothesis it has to be taken carefully, assessed in various ways to ensure it is not a side effect of some other phenomenon.
If you want to know more, please browse the literature :)
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You're new here.
Anyway, you should stop talking to yourself...
IANAL either, but I got my MD a few weeks ago :-)
There are at least two medical definitions of death:
So, yes, suspended animation would formally satisfy the current definition of clinical and brain death, but, since it sounds reversible, it should be a no brainer to change the law to better suit the technology... Either that or consider frozen poeple as technically dead but rescucitable, and protect them with some special laws.
That's why I always browse Gmail with IE, and everyting else with Firefox (with the CookieCuller extension enabled)..
I know they still can link both surfing sessions with my IP address, but I'm too lazy to reset my connection evertime I want to check my email..
Provided it works, it's a smart and original ad.