“Brain imaging confirms that some individuals really are more sensitive to pain than others, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in this week’s on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

‘We have all met people who seem very sensitive to pain as well as those who appear to tolerate pain very well,’ said Robert C. Coghill, Ph.D., lead investigator. ‘Until now, there was no objective evidence that could confirm that these individual differences in pain sensitivity are, in fact, real.'” EurekAlert!