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April 22, 2006 in
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Tags: health.
“Rejection’s a real pain”
A social snub really does hurt as much as a slap in the face. The same brain cells that register physical pain also respond when the injury comes in the form of rejection, UCLA researchers have found.
The neuroscientists monitored brain activity in 13 UCLA undergrads who played a computer ball-tossing game with two unseen partners. In reality, the other “players” were computer generated – and programmed to get nasty. After awhile, they stopped tossing the ball to the students – social rejection. At that, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a region of the brain that registers physical pain, lit up on the study volunteers’ brain scans.
Evolution may have hardwired our brains to view social slight and a broken arm as equally serious threats to our survival, the researchers believe. The antidote? A kiss or a hug could comfort a bruised ACC. “The ACC has a ton of opioid receptors, and opioids, which are released upon touch, are the body’s most potent painkillers.” says lead study author Naomi I. Eisenberger, a UCLA doctoral student.
-SH
- Prevention – January 2005
Large HailOriginally uploaded by munchicken.
yesterday we had two large storms. the first produced very large hail and strong winds. and the second produced lots of lightning (at 3 in the morning).
my (new) car really took a beating from baseball sized hail.
after the storm had went through, it looked like a winter day, with snow covering the ground.
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April 18, 2006 in
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after Hunter had hunted easter eggs around the house, we went to San Antonio to visit markita’s brother’s family to finish off the holiday. we ate lunch and then went to hide eggs in the yard. So the kids were out there hunting easter eggs when it was 99-100 degrees!! after that, they didn’t go back out till it cooled off a little. then we all had a walk and hunter go to ride in Uncle Mark’s “jeep project”, and seemed to love it. Then we played some basketball before we left, and found out that hunter is really good at dribbling the ball. He’s my little ball player 
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April 16, 2006 in
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Tags: food.
we went to a neighborhood crawdad boil last night. got to meet several of our neighbors & eat lots of good spicy food. they had gallons & gallons of crawdads, corn, potatoes, and pigtails.
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April 12, 2006 in
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Tags: spider.
Spider MoltOriginally uploaded by munchicken.
Hunter’s Rosehair Tarantula after molting. Looks as if there are two spiders in the cage.
Published on
April 12, 2006 in
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Tags: health.
i had my first MRI today. i have heard stories of it scaring people who are claustrophobic. But it really is that small! When they rolled me in, my arms were touching the sides and my face was about 2 inches from the top. It was very noisy, even with ear plugs, and the noise was very odd. And I had to lay in there for 30 minutes, and not move.
SALT LAKE CITY(AP) Fossils discovered in southern Utah are from a new species of birdlike dinosaur that resembled a 7-foot-tall brightly colored turkey and could run up to 25 mph, scientists said Tuesday.
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I fractured my coccyx a few days ago, and possibly pinched a nerve above my left hip. I did all this by falling down a fllight of stairs at the house. So now I am stuck laying on the couch, using a slow old laptop, and taking lots of pain medicine. My manager gave me a two week leave at work, since I am on pain medicine (+ my other meds, with possible interactions), and that is not good for working around machenary. My doctor said it would probably be months before I would feel better 
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