'Emotions increase or decrease pain': Researchers

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 07:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Getting a flu shot this fall? Canadians scientists have found that focusing on a pretty image could alleviate the sting of that vaccine. According to a new Universite de Montreal study, published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), negative and positive emotions have a direct impact on pain...

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