Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Filled with sadness and tinged with pain, they came streaming down his mother's cheeks one day eight years ago as she talked once again to an overworked junior high school principal about her son's disciplinary problems...
...stellar play of Arnold and Blake helped ease the Crimson's pain after it was eliminated from the team tournament by Stanford, the eventual national champions...
...biology watcher for many years and a professional in pain management, I'd like to sound a note of caution regarding the dopamine hypothesis of addiction. What is known about the relationship among dopamine, brain content and addictive behavior is associative, not causal. Even those of us who are advocates of greater understanding of neurotransmitter mechanisms in human behavior do not see the situation as "simpler than anyone has dared imagine." As our attempts at interdiction and control demonstrate, there is a flaw in advocating simple solutions to complex problems: the solutions are usually wrong. PHILIP C. CORY, M.D. President...
Though dopamine pleasure may "take hold" and perpetuate addictive behavior, the source of the need is psychological and relational. People turn to drugs and whatever else will give them the dopamine rush, either as a misguided way of connecting or to deaden the pain of being disconnected. But cravings, though reflected in physiology, are rooted in loss and live in thoughts and in the stories we tell ourselves. They float through the mind like a poisonous cloud and plague us with a sense of need and visions of what "might have been." ROBERT GREENWAY Olympic Ecopsychology Institute Port Townsend, Wash...
...scream about ice cream. Some 30% of ICE CREAM lovers wind up with a brief but intense headache within seconds of taking a mouthful. The reason: when cold hits the back of the palate, nerve fibers become irritated, sending pain signals straight to the head...