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Brain Scans Show How Pain Upsets Concentration
07.05.07, 12:00 AM ET
THURSDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) --When pain kicks in, it triggers a region of the brain known as the lateral occipital complex (LOC), overriding a person's ability to concentrate and accurately recognize images, new research shows.
The study, published in the July 5 issue of Neuron, provides a greater understanding of how pain interferes with concentration.
Researchers at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in Germany, asked volunteers to perform a cognitive task distinguishing images, plus a memory task recalling images. While performing those tasks, the researchers zapped the volunteers' hands with a laser beam to induce varying levels of pain.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tests of the volunteers' brain function during the tasks identified the LOC as a region that participates in both working memory activities and pain. It is also known to be a center for processing images.
Digging deeper, the researchers located a second brain area called the rostral anterior cortex, which is responsible for processing pain. It, too, was stimulated during the tests. The researchers theorize that this area of the brain may interfere with the LOC when people are in pain.
Brain Scans Show How Pain Upsets Concentration
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Re: Brain Scans Show How Pain Upsets Concentration
I just showed this to my co-worker... I have been complaining that I can NOT focus at work lately! My pain levels have been through the room!
We laughed! Then I explained that I already knew this!
Thanks Christopher!!
We laughed! Then I explained that I already knew this!
Thanks Christopher!!