Comments on: Nonsense in the media – acupuncture, pain and the brain http://bodyinmind.com.au/nonsense-in-the-media-acupuncture-pain-and-the-brain/ Research into the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain disorders Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:42:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: fMRI and behaviour – Neuroskeptic clears things up http://bodyinmind.com.au/nonsense-in-the-media-acupuncture-pain-and-the-brain/#comment-4094 fMRI and behaviour – Neuroskeptic clears things up Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:03:12 +0000 http://www.bodyinmind.com.au/?p=2925#comment-4094 [...] distorted along the path from laboratory to media reporting (ladies and gentlemen I give you “acupuncture lessens pain in the brain not the body”) but by understanding these more subtle errors we can at least be sure that the right message [...] [...] distorted along the path from laboratory to media reporting (ladies and gentlemen I give you “acupuncture lessens pain in the brain not the body”) but by understanding these more subtle errors we can at least be sure that the right message [...]

]]> By: colleen http://bodyinmind.com.au/nonsense-in-the-media-acupuncture-pain-and-the-brain/#comment-2544 colleen Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:42:54 +0000 http://www.bodyinmind.com.au/?p=2925#comment-2544 Hey Loz! Checked out your website - cool! How long have you had it up?? Great seeing you in San Diego - about time you got the exposure you needed here in the US - I think it is just the tip of the iceberg, however. You did sooo good! We will look forward to seeing you in Nottingham. -CL Hey Loz!

Checked out your website – cool! How long have you had it up??
Great seeing you in San Diego – about time you got the exposure you needed here in the US – I think it is just the tip of the iceberg, however. You did sooo good! We will look forward to seeing you in Nottingham. -CL

]]> By: Bronnie Thompson http://bodyinmind.com.au/nonsense-in-the-media-acupuncture-pain-and-the-brain/#comment-2132 Bronnie Thompson Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:28:15 +0000 http://www.bodyinmind.com.au/?p=2925#comment-2132 Way to go! After trying this pm to explain pain to a guy with very mechanical understanding, this sort of headline really makes my blood boil. We ended up agreeing (after loads of 'guided discovery') that his brain is working very hard to protect him, but maybe is a little bit too sensitive, and it might help him to 'turn the volume down', so he can experience pain without the distress and other emotions and behaviours. Sadly, big words like 'conscious experience' and 'emerge' wouldn't make sense to him, but pictures and his own examples certainly do. Health journalists really need to watch their editors and sub-editors like a hawk so what they say doesn't get blurred out of recognition. Way to go! After trying this pm to explain pain to a guy with very mechanical understanding, this sort of headline really makes my blood boil.
We ended up agreeing (after loads of ‘guided discovery’) that his brain is working very hard to protect him, but maybe is a little bit too sensitive, and it might help him to ‘turn the volume down’, so he can experience pain without the distress and other emotions and behaviours.
Sadly, big words like ‘conscious experience’ and ‘emerge’ wouldn’t make sense to him, but pictures and his own examples certainly do.
Health journalists really need to watch their editors and sub-editors like a hawk so what they say doesn’t get blurred out of recognition.

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