Pain Pill Makes Love Hurt Less
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 05 9th, 2011 | no responses
Emotional pain, like that associated with a heartbreak hurts with the same intensity as physical pain and it lights up the same part of the brain. Now researchers have discovered that the pain is just as real and can be reduced with a common painkiller.
It’s been said that love hurts, especially a breakup. New research reported in the journal Psychological Science now proves that it does.
By looking at brain scans of people who were enduring the emotional loss of a bad breakup, scientists noticed that the people showed reduced emotional pain and physical pain — like headaches — after being given acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol.
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