fantasies and dental pain
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>Hi Edoardo,
>{*filter*} fantasies relieve pain?
>In all honesty, yes, there is such research. In a recent study
>conducted at John Hopkins Medical Institutions
You know how quiet Baltimore is on those cold winter evenings. Even
Edgar Allen Poe had trouble hustling up some activity. The rest is a
mystery, however.
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>at the University
>in Wisconsin by Dr Peter S Staats, 40 students were holding their
>hand in a bucket with ice cold water.
Were they asleep first and what percentage of them . . . . . never
mind.
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>Twenty students should thing
>about their favorite {*filter*} fantasy and the others should think of
>somehing neutral.
>The latter group endured 1 minute while the
former group found they got lots of phone calls for dates from the
researchers.
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>imagineurers could stand
>three minutes. Science has since long proved the Gates Control Theory
There is a Gates Control Theory? I always considered Bill Gates way
OUT OF control.
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>(a negative impulse is balanced/blocked by an even stronger one).
>The theory that should be strengthened by this study is that a strong
>negative impulse can be balanced by a strong positive. The exchange
>(repression/enhancement) of impulses are supposed to take place in
>the thalamus.
That's the name of a new club in Baltimore, I heard.
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>Now; what implication may this have on dentistry?
>The dentist asks: Do you want Novocain or some pictures of Pam Anderson?
Jeez, my barber used to have the same deal.
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>Female patients get the options of Arnold Swartzenegger (yes, he is
>according to many polls (by female magazines) a common female fantasy).
>Hans
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> >Can somebody please help me locate a recent news story on Disvovery
> >Health? I've searched the site with no luck. The story emerged before
> >Christmas, claiming that {*filter*} fantasies can help relieve dental pain.
> >Forgive me for being fascinated. Please email me if you know where I
>>can find the research. Thanks!
>Hans Lennros replied:
> Hi Jane,
> "{*filter*} fantasies can help relieve dental pain" ?
> That's no news. It is taught during the last year in all dental
> schools. That's how they keep the students all those years.
> Didn't work though. The anti-climax (no pun intended) was
> the opposite: "Dental pain can help relieve {*filter*} fantasies".
> As we didn't know.
> Hans Lennros DDS
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