A study finds that acetaminophen (Tylenol) reduces positive empathy by reducing activation in brain areas thought to be related to emotional awareness and motivation.
A study finds that acetaminophen (Tylenol) reduces positive empathy by reducing activation in brain areas thought to be related to emotional awareness and motivation.
Acetaminophen – a potent physical painkiller that also reduces empathy for other people’s suffering – blunts physical and social pain by reducing activation in brain areas (i.e. anterior insula and anterior cingulate) thought to ...
1000mg is quite high for a single dose of paracetamol.
10As a teen I was prescribed 500mg ones for my migraine, and it said to take 2 each time.
Now in Japan I get 140mg ones and it says to take 1 each time.
Now that I think about it, I don't think acetaminophen has been effective in ever curing my headaches even back when I was prescribed liver damage amounts.
Sleep apparently > painkillers
5Now that I think about it, I don’t think acetaminophen has been effective in ever curing my headaches even back when I was prescribed liver damage amounts.
Sleep apparently > painkillers
I wouldn't necessarily generalize; even if acetaminophen doesn't work, other painkillers like aspirin or naproxen sodium might. (Personally, I take naproxen sodium and only naproxen sodium when I have a headache.)
1For me, out of everything OTC, Advil Liquigels work the best for anything wrt aches & pain. Headache, muscle ache, period cramps, etc. And it’s pretty quick, too. The generic ones are fine.
Of course, anecdotal evidence and such.
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(I didn't read the article) Is it the drug or is it the pain the drug is taken to alleviate? If I've got a headache or muscle soreness I'm more likely to focus on that than someones fee-fees.
5It's a controlled experiment, not a population study, so the acetaminophen sample weren't in more pain than the control group. But it's a relatively high dose, and while statistically significant the effect seems kind of small. I'm not sure there's really particularly big conclusions you can draw from it.
5Acetaminophen [...] blunts physical and social pain by reducing activation in brain areas thought to be related to emotional awareness and motivation.
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Is that maybe why there been an uptick of bad people in the last couple of decades.
-2Acetaminophen doesn't exactly have a long lasting effect. And this is 1/4 of the maximum recommended daily dose administered at once. I think if people were regularly taking enough tylenol that it has a mass societal effect we'd be seeing a lot more liver failures.
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Nar, probably the material systems rewarding such behaviors
2On the other hand, people may be more willing to allow material systems to decay because they're becoming less empathetic.
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