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Thirsty People Feel More Pain

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ouch-i'm-thirsty dept.

Bifurcati writes "Being thirsty makes you more sensitive to pain, according to a recent study. By simultaneously doing brain scans, new areas of the brain were activated when both pain and thirst were present, apparently making the pain more "painful" - perhaps a survival method so that pain is prioritized over thirst. They'd like to do more research, but ethical issues make it tough - even these subjects had to spend three hours being poked and prodded!"

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  1. Re:Terry Schaivo, anyone?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If all right wingers would drop the asinine idea that euthanasia is UNGODLY!!!11 then that wouldn't have had to happen.