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Social Anxiety / Social Phobia Research

Friday, November 6th, 2009 Social Anxiety / Social Phobia No Comments

Anyone who has ever been socially rejected or had their heart broken knows that it really hurts.  And now, researchers at UCLA have discovered evidence of a biological basis for this pain.  It appears that people with a variation of a specific gene are not just more sensitive to physical pain, but also more sensitive to social pain. › Continue reading

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