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Crossing your arms across your body after injury to the hand could relieve pain, researchers suggest.

The University College London team, who undertook a proof-of-concept study of 20 people, say the brain gets confused over where pain has occurred.

In the journal Pain, they suggest this is because putting hands on the "wrong" sides disrupts sensory perception.

Pain experts say finding ways of confusing the brain is the focus of many studies.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 19:51 MEST

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Women and men can sniff out the opposite sex via odorless pheromones, a new study suggests.

The discovery adds another piece to the growing body of evidence that humans, much like the rest of the animal kingdom, know more from their noses than previously thought.

"We know that for animals, chemosignals are actually the most used signals to communicate, whereas with humans, we think chemosensation is not really used," said study leader Wen Zhou, a psychologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Full Story from nationalgeographic.com

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 09:43 MEST

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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965)

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 MEST

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Four goats have been cruelly slaughtered in a village, raising fears of ‘satanic rituals’.

The animals were killed within a few days of each other, either with their heads twisted backwards or their throats cut.

The horned goat is a symbol in the occult, intended to mock the image of Jesus as the ‘lamb’ who died for Man’s sins, after a reference in the Bible to the obedient sheep being separated from the unruly, non-believing goats.

Retired farmer Jimmy Small, 66, who lost two of his goats to the killer in Tipton St John, Devon, said: ‘The whole village is up in arms over what is happening.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 21:17 MEST

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 MEST

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When Karen Butler came out of sedation after oral surgery a year and a half ago, her mouth throbbed and her face was puffy. But that’s not all that had changed. When she spoke, the words tumbled out in a thick and foreign accent.

“I sounded like I was from Transylvania,” she said.

Over the next few days, the swelling subsided and the pain vanished, but Butler’s newly acquired accent did not. Though it has softened over time, she’s never again spoken like a native Oregonian from Madras. To most people, she sounds British.

It took months to find an explanation: foreign accent syndrome, a disorder so rare that only about 60 cases have been documented worldwide since the early 1900s.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 21:57 MEST

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The length of a person's fingers could reveal their risk of motor neurone disease, according to a study.

UK researchers measured the finger length of 110 people, including 47 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease.

The study, in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, suggests a link between a longer fourth finger relative to the index finger and ALS.

Experts say finger length cannot help screen for ALS and more work is needed.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 11:09 MEST

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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Jay McInerney

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A little boy fighting cancer is selling pictures he has drawn of his favourite monsters to pay for the treatment that could save his life.

Aidan Reed, five, from Kansas City, U.S., was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on September 13 last year.

Since then he has undergone weeks of treatment as well as chemotherapy, infections, spinal taps and other painful procedures.

Parents Katie and Wiley were devastated by the diagnosis, but were given hope when experts said the type of cancer Aidan suffers from has a 90 per cent cure rate.

But the family faced a mountain of hospital bills and had to put their home on the market to fund treatment.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 17:42 MEST

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