Scientists discover a direct route from the brain to the immune system

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System ^ | October 24, 2007 | Unknown

[decimon]

Holistic nerve.

[decimon]

Lizard Brain ping.

Paleo-GGG?

[CholeraJoe]

Of course you can get from the immune system to the brain. You take a left at the solar plexus, then take the elevator all the way to the top floor.

[Fairview]

This article gives the impression that Dr. Tracey’s brilliance is solely responsible for these advances, but workers at the National Jewish Research Center in Denver were looking into this thirty years ago, and even then the refereed journals were full of scholarly articles presenting research findings and discussing it.

I guess this all kind of explains why people who are very depressed can get sick and even die. You see this so often among elderly men when their wives pass away, and just a few months later the husbands follow them to the grave.

[redlocks322]

Makes sense. Like the phenomenon of healthy people thinking they are sick so much that they themselves sick.

[FastCoyote]

this could be an important discovery

[A_perfect_lady]

I remember coming to the conclusion as a teenager that there was a link between mind and body, just from watching my grandmother. She was one of those types who simply refused to bother with getting sick. If she had symptoms of a cold or something, she just plowed through it (rather irritably). I've never seen such a stiff upper lip in my life.

She hung on by the claws till she was 93. When dementia set in, her immune system went down as if the only thing that had been holding it up was the sheer force of her will, and she died six months later. But while she lived, she was a powerhouse.

[Rudder]

This article gives the impression that Dr. Tracey’s brilliance is solely responsible for these advances, but workers at the National Jewish Research Center in Denver were looking into this thirty years ago...

Add to that the work of Dr. Curt P. Richter of Johns Hopkins Medical School in the 1930's.

[decimon]

This article gives the impression that Dr. Tracey’s brilliance is solely responsible for these advances, but workers at the National Jewish Research Center in Denver were looking into this thirty years ago, and even then the refereed journals were full of scholarly articles presenting research findings and discussing it.

Same could be said of any textbook ancient Greek or Einstein. Some one takes some important step to become the one of the textbook.

[Gritty]

[spectre]

So, could this possibly explain the "placebo" effect?

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[dubyagee]

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[decimon]

So, could this possibly explain the "placebo" effect?

I think there is some contention over the placebo effect. In some cases it may be that the placebo is having a beneficial effect and in others that the effect is imagined. IOW, I don't know.

[decimon]

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[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Dr. Tracey has presented his work to the Dalai Lama,

Oh puleeze.  Why would Tracey even want to talk to that hypocrite?

[American_Centurion]

Maybe there is something to acupuncture/acupressure after all? Hmmm?

[decimon]

Oh puleeze. Why would Tracey even want to talk to that hypocrite?

The other hypocrites were busy with the upcoming elections.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Dr. Tracey has presented his work to the Dalai Lama"

Who stood there with a silly grin, giggling, not understanding a word he said or what he was talking about. Then he levitated and flew away...

[Nathan Zachary]

Just about all modern anti inflammatory drugs attempt to regulate the immune systems inflammatory response by blocking the brain’s acetylcholine production.

Nothing even remotely new here.