Sticks and stones: Brain releases natural painkillers during social rejection, U-M study finds

«Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,» goes the playground rhyme that’s supposed to help children endure taunts from classmates. But a new study suggests that there’s more going on inside our brains when someone snubs us — and that the brain may have its own way of easing social pain.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/uom…