We all feel pain, but our experiences are not equal. A new study demonstrates that by measuring brain activity, we might be able to predict who will be more sensitive to pain.
Brain waves and pain illustration
Brain waves may help doctors to understand who is more susceptible to pain.
Pain is a strange phenomenon. How painful a particular injury is can differ from person to person, even if the wound is the same.

Psychology and physiology interact in order to determine how painful something will be.

For instance, if we expect something to hurt, it is more likely to be painful than if we expect it to be painless.

Because pain is so varied, estimating how much pain a person may feel following a medical procedure is impossible to gauge.

Recently, scientists from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom teamed up with those from the University of Maryland in College Park. They looked for clues about pain sensitivity hidden in brain waves.

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