New York Times: Love as Pain Relief
allison2013-04-02T14:32:56-04:00Can love heal all? Well, researchers at Stanford University have found that love does have the power to decrease pain. They conducted a series of tests on 15 college students who professed to being deeply in love. Subjects were placed in brain scanners that tracked their response to a heated probe placed in the palm of their hand. Brain scans were taken under three different scenarios: one, looking a a picture of an acquaintance, two, looking at a picture of their loved one, and three, looking at no picture at all. Based on data, researchers concluded that looking at a picture [...]