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Painkillers affect thoughts: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen can influence your emotions

Loknath Das 13 Feb 2018 Health Comments Off on Painkillers affect thoughts: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen can influence your emotions 421 Views

The study showed that these pain killers influence how people process information, experience feelings of hurt and react to emotionally evocative images.

Popping over-the-counter drugs such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen may relieve your pain but they could also influence your thoughts and emotions, a new study has claimed.

The study showed that these pain killers influence how people process information, experience feelings of hurt and react to emotionally evocative images.

“In many ways, the findings are alarming,” said Kyle Ratner, a psychology and brain science researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

“Consumers assume that when they take an over-the-counter pain medication, it will relieve their physical symptoms, but they do not anticipate broader psychological effects,” Ratner added.

Further, the study, appearing in the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, suggests that over-the-counter pain medicines may influence individuals’ sensitivity to emotionally painful experiences, ability to empathise with the pain of others, reactions to emotional objects, ability to process information and discomfort from parting with possessions.

Compared to those who took placebos, women who took a dose of ibuprofen reported less hurt feelings from emotionally painful experiences, such as being excluded from a game or writing about a time when they were betrayed. However, men showed the opposite pattern.

Individuals who took a dose of acetaminophen were less emotionally distressed while reading about a person experiencing physical or emotional pain and felt less regard for the person, as compared to those taking placebos.

In addition, individuals who took a dose of acetaminophen made more errors of omission in a game where they were asked, at various times, either to perform or to not perform a task. While the medicine could have new potential for helping people deal with pain, more research is needed to examine the efficacy and determine if it would have negative effects for people who take it in combination with other medicines or who are depressed and have difficulty feeling pleasure, the researchers said.

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