U-M Study: During Social Rejection Brain Releases Natural Painkillers

The playground rhyme that's supposed to help children endure taunts from classmates goes like this, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." But a new study suggests that there's more going on inside our brains when someone snubs us - and that the brain may have its own way of easing social pain. The findings, recently published in iMolecular Psychiatry/i by a University of Michigan Medical School team, show that the brain's natural ...

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