Brain Structure Determines How Sensitive To Pain You Are, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Study

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Researchers in the US have discovered a new clue to why everybody feels pain differently - it could be because of individual differences in brain structure. Writing about their findings in a recent online issue of the journal Pain, scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, describe how they compared people's perceived pain intensity with differences in brain structure seen in MRI scans.

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