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Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same way

After decades of assuming that pain processing is equivalent in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an ‘ouch!’.
  1. Amber Dance

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Robert Sorge was studying pain in mice in 2009, but he was the one who ended up with a headache.

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Nature 567, 448-450 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00895-3

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