Neuroscience and Massage

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Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 10, 2012 at 5:30am

http://www.springerlink.com/content/c5651055m685v684/

Abstract

The current study investigated the immediate neurophysiological effects of different types of massage in healthy adults using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Much attention has been given to the default mode network, a set of brain regions showing greater activity in the resting state. These regions (i.e. insula, posterior and anterior cingulate, inferior parietal and medial prefrontal cortices) have been postulated to be involved in the neural correlates of consciousness, specifically in arousal and awareness. We posit that massage would modulate these same regions given the benefits and pleasant affective properties of touch. To this end, healthy participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: 1. Swedish massage, 2. reflexology, 3. massage with an object or 4. a resting control condition. The right foot was massaged while each participant performed a cognitive association task in the scanner. We found that the Swedish massage treatment activated the subgenual anterior and retrosplenial/posterior cingulate cortices. This increased blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal was maintained only in the former brain region during performance of the cognitive task. Interestingly, the reflexology massage condition selectively affected the retrosplenial/posterior cingulate in the resting state, whereas massage with the object augmented the BOLD response in this region during the cognitive task performance. These findings should have implications for better understanding how alternative treatments might affect resting state neural activity and could ultimately be important for devising new targets in the management of mood disorders.

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 10, 2012 at 5:10am

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120509180113.htm

Scientists Identify Neurotranmitters That Lead to err .....ummmm.............. Forgetting

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 8, 2012 at 3:53pm

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 8, 2012 at 1:48pm

Multiple thought channels ? to stop you blowing a fuse :)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120506160124.htm#.T6ge...

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 8, 2012 at 1:26pm

interesting web site

http://www.brainfacts.org/

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 3, 2012 at 8:27am

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.ca/2012/01/take-your-placebos-or-die.html

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on May 3, 2012 at 7:51am

http://www.bboyscience.com/2012/05/02/the-problem-with-placebo/

good discussion around the placebo effect............see I've just increased your expectations of an interesting article.:)

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on April 25, 2012 at 2:50am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Pu-drebFU&feature=youtu.be

Sing the body elastic? all about how the mind maps the body.Sandra Blakeslee co author of "the body has a mind of its own.

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on April 24, 2012 at 4:08pm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858322/?tool=pubmed

Somatosensory Plasticity and Motor Learning

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on April 24, 2012 at 3:51pm

http://www.facebook.com/notes/somasimple-the-so-simple-body/nothing...

Nothing Simple - Ten Steps to Understanding Manual and Movement Therapies for Pain

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