The Shared Roots of Mental and Physical Pain
The Shared Roots of Mental and Physical Pain "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The old adage is being called into question by new research from UCLA: Dr. Naomi Eisenberger has found that social rejection and physical pain are intrinsically linked in the brain, so much so that a lack of the former can impact the latter. How social rejection might affect physical pain In an experiment published in the 2006 issue of the journal Pain , Eisenberger used 75 subjects to explore perceptions of p...