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Study Claims Progress on Measuring Pain

(March 4) -- British researchers say they may have figured out a way to measure pain. The findings in a small study by the researchers at King's College London are the latest in a centuries-old debate over how to, and whether we even can, quantify physical pain. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging...

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Chris Weigant: Romney's Ridiculous Double Standard Presents Gigantic Opening for Obama

Maybe this election will be remembered as the "It's the jobs, stupid" election, but who knows?

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Flipboard Officially Opens Up Their Android Beta To Interested Testers

The news of an impending Flipboard Android beta only began making the rounds earlier this morning, and now the Flipboard team has opened up the beta process to anyone interested in taking the plunge.

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02/24/12 Insight to Brain Connectivity in Chronic Low Back Pain... Source: PR Newswire PALM SPRINGS, Calif. , Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at Harvard Medical School used arterial spin labeling, a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique, to show for the first time that brain connectivity in patients with discogenic chronic low back pain (CLBP) changes in proportion to the severity of their pain.
08/11/11 New imaging technique captures brain activity in... Source: NewsRx Research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) uses a new imaging technique, arterial spin labeling, to show the areas of the brain that are activated when patients with low back pain have a worsening of their usual, chronic pain.
07/28/11 Have Lower Back Pain? A Brain Scan Could Help Source: International Business Times (Australia) This new method of describing levels of pain will provide more accurate ways for doctors to assess pain in patients, rather than relying on the testimony of the patient which often times is inaccurately described.
07/27/11 New imaging technique captures brain activity in... Source: PhysOrg.com Research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) uses a new imaging technique, arterial spin labeling, to show the areas of the brain that are activated when patients with low back pain have a worsening of their usual, chronic pain.

Background on arterial spin labeling

Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) is an MRI procedure that measures brain activity by detecting associated changes in blood flow.

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