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Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. [1] The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN group of disorders, which have more specific signs and cause.
S.M., sometimes referred to as SM-046, is an American woman with a peculiar type of brain damage that physiologically reduces her ability to feel fear.First described by scientists in 1994, [1] she has had exclusive and complete bilateral amygdala destruction since late childhood as a consequence of Urbach–Wiethe disease.
A Scottish woman with a previously unreported genetic mutation in a FAAH pseudogene (dubbed FAAH-OUT) with resultant elevated anandamide levels was reported in 2019 to be immune to anxiety, unable to experience fear, and insensitive to pain. The frequent burns and cuts she had due to her full hypoalgesia healed quicker than average. [4] [5] [6]
A woman described her battle with pain for the better part of 20 years — until an MRI scan finally revealed what was causing her so much discomfort. Here's what she learned about endometriosis.
There’s a laundry list of things that men and women experience differently, but new research finds that pain may be yet another one.. The study, which was published in PNAS Nexus on October 14 ...
Anastacia “Tasha” Quingquing is a woman diagnosed with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, a rare congenital disease that makes her incapable of feeling physical pain and pleasure. [5] She works in a pharmaceutical company and asks her friends, Eric and Au, to go to a vacation but they have a lot of excuses that make them unavailable for the ...
Acute pain — sudden or urgent pain that results from injury, trauma or surgery — affects more than 80 million Americans annually and is the most common reason for emergency department visits ...
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.