Are you nervous?

[maxpower]

I am nervous or anxious, I don't know which one. I can hardly fathom our team losing. They may not be that unstoppable force of 99 when you just knew if the game was close the Spurs were going to pull it off. However they have all the pieces that can cover for those sins of the past...like the long stretches of the scoring drought. Now if they can shore up that Defense.

Well I'm calming my nerves with a couple of Tecates and now starting on the Dos X...

p.s. the HEB has XX for 9.99/12pack. :drunk :drunk

[RON ARTEST]

im always nervous playing against a team like the spurs.

[J.T.]

I have faith.

Believe

[SAGambler]

I am nervous or anxious, I don't know which one. I can hardly fathom our team losing. They may not be that unstoppable force of 99 when you just knew if the game was close the Spurs were going to pull it off. However they have all the pieces that can cover for those sins of the past...like the long stretches of the scoring drought. Now if they can shore up that Defense.

Well I'm calming my nerves with a couple of Tecates and now starting on the Dos X...

p.s. the HEB has XX for 9.99/12pack. :drunk :drunk

Yeah, I always start getting anxious two or three hours before tip off. Since I can't drink any more, I can't even relax with a few cools ones to soothe me down. So have a couple of those Tecates for me.

[J.T.]

I am more nervous about what I will do for the next 3 hours than the game itself.

[boutons_]

May 5, 2006

Study Points to a Solution for Dread: Distraction

By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

For those who dread a colonoscopy or a root canal so much that they avoid it altogether, scientists have good news.

The first study ever to look at where sensations of dread arise in the brain finds that contrary to what is widely believed, dread does not involve fear and anxiety in the moment of an unpleasant event. Instead, it derives from the attention that people devote beforehand to what they think will be extremely unpleasant.

So the solution to dread, the researchers say, is self-distraction.

"We sort of knew that things like self-hypnosis help relieve dread, but now we know why," said Dr. Gregory S. Berns, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University, who led the study.

The research, being published today in the journal Science, is "terrific, " said a leading expert on brain imaging, Dr. Read Montague, a professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine who was not involved in the study. It demonstrates that the brain "assigns a cost to waiting for something bad, so that the bad thing is worse when it's delayed farther in the future," Dr. Montague said.

"Hence," he said, "the 'let's get it over with' bit when we're at the doctor's office waiting to get a shot."

The research also sheds light on economic behavior, said George Loewenstein, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University. According to standard economic models of human behavior, choosing more pain in the short run is irrational, Dr. Loewenstein said: if you know something bad is going to happen, you should postpone it as long as possible, and if something good is going to happen, you should want it right away.

In real life, people often do the exact opposite, he said. They delay gratification to savor a sweet sense of anticipation, and accelerate punishment just to get it over with. The new study sheds light, he said, on how the act of waiting can be used to describe economic behavior more accurately.

For the study, Dr. Berns put 32 people into a brain scanner and applied brief electric shocks to the tops of their left feet. After their maximum pain threshold was determined, meaning the most pain they could withstand, they were each presented a series of 96 cues. Each cue stated how much voltage they were about to experience and how long they would have to wait for it. For example, one cue might say they were about to receive 60 percent of their maximum pain after 27 seconds. Another might warn of a 30 percent maximum shock after 9 seconds.

Next the subjects were given options involving various combinations of voltage and how long they had to wait for it . For example, they could choose between getting 90 percent of their maximum voltage after three seconds or 60 percent after 27 seconds. Then they received the chosen shock to the foot.

The scanner detected the brain activity involved in waiting for shocks, providing a road map for understanding the dread response.

Twenty-three of the people, termed "mild dreaders," chose as short a delay as possible for any given voltage but were not willing to accept more pain just to get it over with, Dr. Berns said. The nine others, called "extreme dreaders," always took the highest voltage if it was sooner rather than later. They gladly accepted more pain to reduce their dread time.

In comparing the brain scans of both groups, Dr. Berns found only one difference. During the waiting period, extreme dreaders showed high activity in a part of the brain's so-called pain matrix that involves attention.

The pain matrix is a set of brain regions that become active when people experience pain, Dr. Berns said. Parts of it deal with sensing the body, while other regions are involved in intuition, emotions, fear or attention. Extreme dreaders, he said, deploy more attention to their soon-to-be-shocked foot than do mild dreaders. Above all else, dread involves attention to unpleasant things to come, making it quite different from anxiety or fear.

When it comes to a root canal or a colonoscopy, it is not really the procedures themselves that people dread, but the waiting time, Dr. Berns said.

For extreme dreaders, finding distraction is probably the best way to cope.

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

[ALVAREZ6]

I am nervous, but confident.




Believe.

[The Rock]

Know What I Think About Whats Gonna Happen Tonight?

[JoeChalupa]

I will be until the game is over with a Spurs win.

[cqsallie]

Last game at Arco, I was so nervous that I became physically ill. I don't have that feeling tonight. In fact, I'm feeling very confident. And - a few cool ones never hurt. I say let's go for it and let the chips fall where they may.
We'll be blowing our horns tonight, folks!

[rayray2k8]

Yeah, I always start getting anxious two or three hours before tip off. Since I can't drink any more, I can't even relax with a few cools ones to soothe me down. So have a couple of those Tecates for me.
Tecates are alright man.
They kinda taste like a mix of a fruit soda and beer.
Not bad. But Miller Lite usually does it for me :spin :drunk

[KingsFanWithoutName]

Tecates are alright man.
They kinda taste like a mix of a fruit soda and beer.
Not bad. But Miller Lite usually does it for me :spin :drunk
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[Deb]

Damn Boutons, how much did they pay those people to get the electric shock treatment to their feet in that survey?

GO SPURS GO

[boutons_]

college students are as cheap as they are stupid :lol

[englishspursfan]

i like the ....BELIEVE.....AN YOU WILL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF PLAYOFFS FINAL. :blah :blah :blah

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I am nervous about ginobili showing up

[ALVAREZ6]

I am nervous about ginobili showing up
To tell you the truth, so am I...



I am praying that he does.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I am more confident than nerovus though

Its a weird feeling...im not worried about tonight and wont be surprised if we lose.

Spurs have a history of stepping up in game 6...this may be one of those neck and neck games all the way to the last basket

[Jimcs50]

No, because the Spurs will KILL the Kings....bank on it.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Jimbo if you jinxed us...

[ducks]

A Little Bit Because Tp Might Not Play!
Spurs Drop The Fucking Hammer Tonight

[Trifecta]

I am staright up nervous!!!

I told someone that I am not going to watch the game, but then I usually creep into the game before half time!

Tonight, I might have to stay distracted to keep my sanity!

I do feel good about this game -- SPURS in six!!!!!!

[CubanMustGo]

C'mon Spurs, my sad-ass vBookie needs your help tonight.

[Texas_Ranger]

I will be when the game will start.

[Vingianx]

Last game at Arco, I was so nervous that I became physically ill. I don't have that feeling tonight. In fact, I'm feeling very confident. And - a few cool ones never hurt. I say let's go for it and let the chips fall where they may.
We'll be blowing our horns tonight, folks!


got so friggin pissed i got a headache went to bed and woke up in the morning with it still...

[Jimcs50]

Jimbo if you jinxed us...

No no, I said Phoenix had the game last night when they were up 6 in the 3rd Q and Shoog said that was great because he was for his Lakers, I told him that my so-called jinxing is way over, and that Phoenix would win, no doubt.

[Shaolin-Style]

I'm excited, I love this stuff

[CubanMustGo]

I'm nervous this frickin' Whiz-Cadaver game's never going to end

[samikeyp]

No.

[Jimcs50]

No, because the Spurs will KILL the Kings....bank on it.


:smokin :smokin :smokin

[samikeyp]

Jim, again, is correct. :tu