Health
How one pain suppresses the other – EurekAlert
When two painful stimuli act on us at the same time, we perceive the one of them as less painful. This phenomenon is part of the body’s own pain control system….
Two consecutive studies on this have been published in the journals Brain Sciences and BMC Neuroscience.
The same stimulus hurts differently
The human perception of pain can vary greatly depending on the situation. So it is possible that the same pain stimulus feels more or less painful under different conditions. The body’s own pain control system is responsible for this. Researchers investigate this system with the research method called Conditioned Pain Modulation, or CPM for short. “This records…
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