Researchers Find Way to Measure Pain


	Researchers Find Way to Measure Pain

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c5edb86c-32ae-4161-a763-b56d6f509f15/2DDED7D4-CEDD-47E5-A8E6-F8EF804662B5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/75928/researchers?ic=6042" href="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/75928/researchers?ic=6042" style="font-size: 11px;">www.healthcentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/75928/researchers?ic=6042"><H1>Researchers Find Way to Measure Pain </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/75928/researchers?ic=6042"><H4><A href="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/profile" linkindex="52">Karen Lee Richards</A></H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/75928/researchers?ic=6042"><DIV class="small profile_date">Wednesday, June 24, 2009</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/5949/75928/researchers?ic=6042"><DIV>Scientists at Oxford University in the UK have found a way to both identify the existence of pain and measure it's intensity using brain imaging techniques such as functional maagnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).  In a series of studies, they were able to pinpoint distinct differences between the brains of people who have pain and those who don't.  They found that pain incerased the blood flow to certain parts of the brain roughly in proportion to the intensity of the pain.  While most of the senses (hearing,  sight, etc.) activate only one part of the brain, pain can activate more than a dozen different parts of the brain.  </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2DDED7D4-CEDD-47E5-A8E6-F8EF804662B5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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