From owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Sep 15 17:40:04 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 967FF17AF8; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:40:02 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id BFB9F17AF5; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:40:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FFF415D5 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:39:59 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA27400 for biophys-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:39:59 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: margie.h.stinson@exxon.com X-Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: RE: MSN Health - Strange migraine cure Date: 15 Sep 2000 17:39:58 +0100 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 48 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk 969035999 27378 193.62.192.80 (15 Sep 2000 16:39:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net X-Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id 15F1617AF5; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:39:57 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from exxapp.ecsco.com (exxapp.ecsco.com [192.67.48.2]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B222415D5 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:39:56 +0100 (BST) X-Received: by exxapp.ecsco.com; id LAA02427; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:46:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Received: from unknown(159.129.140.158) by exxapp.ecsco.com via smap (V5.0) id xma002372; Fri, 15 Sep 00 11:46:09 -0500 X-Received: by hoedtim2.ecsc.exxon.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:39:26 -0500 X-To: rcb5@msn.com, biophys@net.bio.net, PSYCH-CI@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU, TIPS@fre.fsu.umd.edu X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) To: biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk A friend who suffers migraines tells me that she heard botulism injections are also being touted as a mirgraine cure. If the botulism injections temporarily paralyze the nerves in the muscles that produce frowns (is this indeed what happens?), then it appears to be a less drastic way to arrive at the same conclusion. The downside is that the injections are temporary in nature and relatively expensive for a long-term treatment. The upside is that they are a temporary fix and be stopped at any time. Anyone ever heard of this? Margie Stinson Adjunct Faculty, Lee College Huntsville, Texas > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Blue [SMTP:rcb5@msn.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:10 PM > To: biophys@net.bio.net; Current issues in Psychology; TIPS > Subject: Fw: MSN Health - Strange migraine cure > > > > > > http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1728.60732 > > > > Report: Plastic surgeons are stumped by an accidental discovery that cutting > the muscles used to create the wrinkles associated with a frown stops > migraines. > > Comment: > It is well know in psychology that a smile will reduce depression even if > the smile is forced by biting a pencil. > It makes logical sense that muscles that are related to migraines that can > not be activated and can not provide confirmation of a painful frown from a > migraine would reduce or control migraines. > > The underlying reason in my opinion is the brain processes inform and stores > it as correlational opponent wavelet filter which interacts with a stimulus > wavelet. It does this through associational reciprocal inhibition and is > highly sensitive to the weighted experiences of the past. By cutting the > muscles this shift the processing of current information away from the area > of the brain where high neural interaction associated with migraines would > be stored (technically speaking it is not stored there because it is > holographic). Using the same logic, one could use plastic surgery to > tighten the same muscles so that a frown was always present. This should > cause an increase in migraines. If this was done and the muscles were cut > later the pain reduction from migraines should be significantly higher. > > Ron Blue > http:://turn.to/ai > correlational opponent processing > > > --- .