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Study points to the pain-reducing effects of social support

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From the De Gruyter press release: Researchers at the University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT, Hall, Austria) and the University of the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) have confirmed the analgesic… 

Study finds that adults take girls’ pain less seriously

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From the Yale University press release: Gender stereotypes can hurt children — quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick,… 

Study suggests brain activity predicts fear of pain

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From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Researchers applied a machine learning technique that could potentially translate patterns of activity in fear-processing brain regions into scores on questionnaires used to assess a patient’s fear of pain.… 

Study suggests mental imagery may help with pain management

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From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Mentally reframing pain as a pleasant experience is an effective regulation strategy that acts independently of the opioid system, finds new human research published in JNeurosci. The study supports…