An MRI as part of a study , allowed researchers to determine that the same brain networks that are activated when you suffer a minor burn light when passing a loving refusal.
The broken heart and painful separations are more than just metaphors , the role of feelings of rejection and other emotional trauma may play in the development of chronic pain disorders such as fibromyalgia .
During the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, recruited 21 women and 19 men who had no history of symptoms of mental or chronic illness , but that they had been victims of heartbreak over the previous six months.
After subjecting them to scans of fMRI and achieve measure brain activity by tracking changes in blood flow , it was shown that such rejection elicits a response in the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior insula, both parts of the brain that are linked to pain physically perceptible .
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