“When you take acetaminophen to reduce your pain, you may also be decreasing your empathy for both the physical and social aches that other people experience, a new study suggests.Researchers at The Ohio State University found, for example, that when participants who took acetaminophen learned about the misfortunes of others, they thought these individuals experienced less pain and suffering,when compared to those who took no painkiller. ‘These findings suggest other people’s pain doesn’t seem as big of a deal to you when you’ve taken acetaminophen,’ said Dominik Mischkowski, co-author of the study and a former Ph.D. student at Ohio State, now at the National Institutes of Health.”
“Acetaminophen can reduce empathy as well as serve as a painkiller.”
Read the full article: When you take acetaminophen, you don’t feel others’ pain as much
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