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According to new research, men and women may remember pain differently.

As reported by futurity, this has pretty big implications because researchers are starting

to think the memory of earlier pain seems to be one of the driving forces in chronic pain.

This study out of McGill University backs that up,

and the findings could help scientists find future treatments for chronic pain.

The discovery they made was a total surprise to researchers.

They were actually doing an experiment to look at pain hypersensitivity in mice, and they ended up finding

differences in stress levels between the male and female mice. The researchers decided to extend the

experiment to humans to see if the results would be similar and they found the

same difference between human men and women that they found in male and female mice.

Here's what went down. First, the

researchers needed to make participants feel pain. So they did that by doing stuff

like applying heat to part of their forearm or having them do arm exercises while hooked into a tightly inflated blood pressure cuff.

The human participants rated the pain on a hundred point scale and for the tests with the mice

the researchers recorded how quickly the mice moved away from the heat source.

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