Taboo gesticulations as a response to pain

Swearing as a response to pain.

Although a common pain response, whether swearing alters individuals' experience of pain has not been investigated. This study investigated whether swearing affects cold-pressor pain tolerance (the ability to withstand immersing the hand in icy water), pain perception and heart rate. In a repeated measures design, pain outcomes were assessed in participants asked to repeat a swear word versus a...

Mental Health Policy Adoption as a Seminal Event: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Global Health as a Field of Power Relations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Actors working in global health often portray it as an enterprise grounded in principled concerns, advanced by individuals and organizations who draw on scientific evidence to pursue health equity. This portrait is incomplete. It is also a field of power relations—a social arena in which actors claim and draw on expertise and moral authority to gain influence and pursue career, organizational a...

Daboo: An interactive system to make a user guess a word as fast as possible (without using taboo words)

This paper presents an architecture and a real time computer system for the automatic generation of text in the specific context of the word guessing game TabooTM. To achieve the game’s goal – let the user guess a word as fast as possible without using certain taboo words – our system Daboo uses sophisticated algorithms to model user knowledge and to interpret semantically the user input. The f...

Complex regional pain syndrome as a stress response.

A man in his 50's with a prior traumatic brain injury and multiple psychiatric disorders developed acute pain and swelling in his left leg distal to the mid shin. These symptoms arose during an exacerbation of his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among his traumatic memories, he reported having witnessed the combat injury and death of a friend who had lost his left leg distal to the mid s...