Tribune India ( 04 March , 2018
) carries following report :
Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not
only will your breathing and heart rate synchronise with theirs, your brain
wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study.
The research also found that the more empathy a
comforting partner feels for a partner in pain, the more their brainwaves fall
into sync. And the more those brain waves sync,
the more the pain goes away.
"We have developed a lot of ways to
communicate in the modern world and we have fewer physical interactions,"
said Pavel Goldstein
from University of Colorado at Boulder in the US.
"This paper illustrates the power and
importance of human touch," Goldstein said.
The study, published in the journal PNAS, is the first to
look at brain wave synchronization in the context of pain, and offers new
insight into the role brain-to-brain coupling may play in touch-induced
analgesia, or healing touch.
Researchers recruited 22 heterosexual couples, age
23 to 32 who had been together for at least one year and put them through
several two-minute scenarios as electroencephalography (EEG) caps measured
their brainwave activity.
The scenarios included sitting together not
touching; sitting together holding hands; and sitting in separate rooms. Then they repeated
the scenarios as the woman was subjected to mild heat pain on her arm.
Merely being in each other's presence, with or
without touch, was associated with some brain wave synchronicity in the alpha
mu band, a wavelength associated with focused attention.
If they held hands while she
was in pain, the coupling increased the most.
The researchers also found that when she was in
pain and he couldn't touch her, the coupling of their brain waves diminished.
"It appears that pain totally interrupts this
interpersonal synchronization between couples and touch brings it back,"
said Goldstein.
Totally ignorant of what Pavel Goldstein was working on, I imagined the
possibility of such scientific advancement, some 3 MONTHS ago , in my following blog :
Equalizing/ Distributing / Transferring , Pain ? [ 03 Dec
2017 ]
Dear Pavel :
I hope , someday soon , you will find
time to research , how pain can be transferred from one person to another ,
just by “ thinking “ ( telepathy ? ) , across hundreds of kilometres away
If you succeed, you will help ( even
if partially ) , 4 billion poor people of the World, earn an income !
References :
04
March 2018
www.hemenparekh.in
/ blogs
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