Levels of ‘Anti-Pain’ Brain Chemicals Vary Among People: “For the first time, researchers have examined in real time how different people feel pain in the brain. By monitoring healthy humans

experiencing sustained pain, scientists at the University of Michigan got to watch the brain’s painkiller system in action and determined that

not all brains handle pain equally well.” One of the most vexing problems I’ve faced as a doctor is the difficulty assessing pain complaints, especially when dealing with patients who appear to be “med-seeking.” Objective measures to assist in finding a middle ground between the healthcare profession’s dual tendencies to undermedicate legitimate pain (“pharmacological Calvinism”) and to be taken advantage of by scammers would be an enormous advance. Scientific American