While the brain does not process emotional pain and physical pain identically, the reaction and cascading events are very similar, and a natural chemical (painkiller mu-opioid) is released during ...

The brain processes emotional and physical pain through remarkably similar mechanisms, challenging the traditional separation between “real” physical pain and “just emotional” suffering.

Your body might be reacting to emotional memories with very real pain signals, and it’s more common than you’d think. Our brains don’t always make clear distinctions between physical and ...

Not all pain is the same. Depending on the cause, it requires different therapies. A team has now developed a method that enables physicians to better distinguish ...

Now, there’s growing evidence that it dulls physical pain as well. What’s New ... such as candy, cartoons, and toys from the era of their childhood. The reminders of yesteryear also ...

New research suggests physical pain may have a distinct brain “signature” that distinguishes it from emotional hurt. In the brain, the pain from broken leg and the anguish of a broken heart ...

I journaled and meditated. I read every mental-meets-physical-health book I could get my hands on. And I talked back to my pain, telling it that it had no hold over me, that it wasn’t really ...