Researchers find brain changes behind pain sensitivity affect older women more

Columbus [Ohio], January 31 (ANI): A new study discovered that the brain mechanism that allows us to regulate our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based disparities in those changes may cause females to be more sensitive to mild pain than males as they age.

Researchers used fMRI scans to look at brain responses in men and women who judged the degree and unpleasantness of pain while exposed to escalating amounts