Acetaminophen – a potent physical painkiller that also reduces empathy for other people’s suffering – blunts physical and social pain by reducing activation in brain areas (i.e. anterior insula and anterior cingulate) thought to ...
It’s a controlled experiment, not a population study, so the acetaminophen sample weren’t in more pain than the control group. But it’s a relatively high dose, and while statistically significant the effect seems kind of small. I’m not sure there’s really particularly big conclusions you can draw from it.
It’s a controlled experiment, not a population study, so the acetaminophen sample weren’t in more pain than the control group. But it’s a relatively high dose, and while statistically significant the effect seems kind of small. I’m not sure there’s really particularly big conclusions you can draw from it.