It was discovered that the feeling of nostalgia can reduce the feeling of pain

feeling of nostalgiaIt is a feeling that we all enjoy because it takes us to good memories of the past, such as our childhood memories. However, it seems that nostalgia makes us relive good memories, but there are other very important things. benefits there is also.

According to a new study, the feeling of nostalgia, our perception of pain also has effects. The researchers behind the study found that nostalgia was helpful in relieving low-level pain such as headaches and mild clinical pain. a drug-free treatment suggests that it can be used as a method.

Memories can literally ‘bind our wounds’

To determine whether nostalgia has an effect on pain, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences asked adult participants to rate the nostalgic levels of the displayed images and the pain from thermal stimuli, as they measured their brain activity with fMRI. Among the nostalgic news shown, an average of formerly popular candy bars, cartoons, and games in the schoolyard. childhood scenes and elements In the control group, relevant scenes and items from modern daily life were shown to the participants.

At the end of this experiment, when people saw nostalgic images, they were more likely to evaluate pain compared to the images in the control group. lower pain level It was observed that the greatest effect was experienced in low-intensity pain.

In addition, the participants watching the nostalgic images showed that the left lingual gyrus and parahippocampal gyrus, two brain regions that play a role in the perception of pain. decreased activity detected. Accordingly, the activity occurring in the thalamus, which is the brain region responsible for transferring information between the body and the cortex, is related to both nostalgia and pain degrees; by integrating the thalamus’s knowledge of nostalgia can transmit to pain pathways was discovered.