Physical Pain and Emotional Pain
I usually think of of physical pain and emotional pain as fairly separate phenomena. Physical pain is caused by certain things (like a wound), and cured by certain things (like a pain medication). Emotional pain is usually caused by a totally different set of things (like a bad breakup) and cured by different things (like [...]
Tags: brain function, emotional pain, neurology, physical pain, scientific studies
Posted November 23, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies
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