Phantom limb

Theories on the Effects of Acupuncture on the Nervous System Despite the growing evidence that many ailments respond positively to acupuncture, much of the Western World remains incredulous as to its healing abilities. The centuries-old Chinese practice of acupuncture, rooted in 'non-scientific' and 'non-Western' thought and medicine, has burgeoned during the late-twentieth century trend towards 'alternative medicines.' Numerous clients readily attest to the positive effects of acupuncture

However, sometimes, established pain can go beyond its protective role, thus becoming a disease in itself than just being a symptom. This condition is called chronic pain. The injury or the precipitating event can be physical (like in case of phantom limb pain or post-surgical pain), infection (as with post-herpetic neuralgia), systemic disease (like with diabetic neuropathy), drug (chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy) or can sometimes be unknown (trigeminal neuralgia, migraine, cluster headache

A Man Runs into a Woman by Sarah Jane Barnett There’s a lot going on in A Man Runs into a Woman, yet nothing happens as well. Sarah Jane Barnett explores the different means of telling an individual’s story; a cross-dressing father interacts with her daughter, a couple tries to connect with each other after the war, another couple leaves the worst unsaid, and two middle aged strike up an unlikely friendship. A series of stringed distinctive poems tries exploring the grim police reports of the death

In the novel The Book of Negroes, written by Lawrence Hill, Aminata Diallo the protagonist who is captured and enslaved triumphs over most obstacles in her way. In the story, Hill attempts to explore and showcase the resilience of an individual that is faced with problems. Aminata grows and develops as a character due to various complications she has to endure throughout the story. Her self-discovery can be observed through various losses such as her loss of innocence, her loss of safety and finally

The unknown author of Beowulf uses examples throughout the poem that suggest the story comes from an "oral" tradition. In the poem Beowulf, a Germanic scop, or bard, recites poetry orally, or in a song, usually telling stories about historical triumphs and adventures. These poets were referred to in this epic poem as "carriers of tales..., traditional singer[s] deeply schooled in the lore[s] of the past" (Beowulf 50). This was common in Germanic culture. Scops would keep folkloric heroes alive

as a result of memories, emotions, expectations or signals from various brain centres and not just from signals from peripheral nerves. Because of the lack of sensory stimulation or a person’s efforts to move a nonexistent limb, abnormal patterns may arise, resulting in phantom pain. 6. a) The role stimulus generalization plays in this problem is where mental images of the sights and smells of the clinic can become conditioned stimuli for nausea, aside from the nurse’s uniform, smell of rubbing

technology a useful and effective attachment. Technology being so deeply ingrained, we have all allowed our phones to become an extension of who we are. Students in Turkle’s research sleep with their phones, and say they know when it is ringing, like phantom limb syndrome. Our smartphones are always with us, and our profiles are always on our minds. We interact with multiple messaging services via brief conversations of abbreviations and image sharing. We speak through images, abandoning words and written

In “Mediations” Descartes argues that in order to have knowledge about something you shouldn’t be able to doubt it. He does so by using the method of doubt, you have to take all your beliefs and subject them to doubt. If you can doubt your beliefs, even a little, then they are deemed false. Descartes gives two strong arguments to support his argument which are the dream hypothesis, the idea that you might actually be asleep instead of being awake, and the evil demon hypothesis, the idea that an evil

one in particular, but was enamored of the sound of its own voice. So she listened as she soaked up its fresh water, always wriggling her root toes for a closer sip. She was always thirsty after a long day of soaking up the sun, warm on her thin limbs. She was even thirsty on the days when the gray clouds that got between her and the bright jewel in the sky showered her endlessly. "Noisy things," she thought of the clouds, "and grumpy too. What have they to complain about? So dark they cannot

self-attribution or mineness ( Lopez et al., 2008). Several ways to analyze body representation and ownership has been through the means of investigating bodily disorders. There is an exhaustive number of different bodily disorders including the phantom illusion, Pinocchio illusion, deafferentation, autotopagnosia and out of body experience. The famous rubber hand illusion, is a good example of how we attribute body ownership over innate objects. In the rubber hand illusion (Botvinick & Cohen, 1998)