Dr Jessica Eccles

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ADHD Chatter · Oxford Psychiatrist: The Fastest Way To Cure RSD! (New Research) · 4 May 2026 podcast

And a really interesting thing that we did, you know, I was telling you about how social pain is experienced in the brain in the same way as physical pain.

But there were some interesting experiments not done by us that showed that a single dose of paracetamol in the brain scanner, so paracetamol is a painkiller for the body, actually reduced feelings of social pain.

We did an experiment whereby we showed people in the brain scanner a sort of a virtual reality.

We're not quite a virtual reality, but sort of avatars and things.

There's a game where people get excluded.

So you're supposed to play a game and it's like, you know, three people passing a ball and you're supposed to feel as though the ball is never coming to you.

It's called Cyberball.

It's a reliable inducer of feelings of social...

pain but what we did is we um we had you watch someone else be in social pain and that activated the same um areas in the brain so just to push that to an extreme example if you if you took a shot of morphine and then you got an email from your boss asking for a quick chat would you be immune to the emotional pain

I don't know.

You mean for my paracetamol example?

Well, I don't think we should speculate or encourage people to take painkillers before emails.

But I think it speaks to the...

What we were talking about in terms of neurodivergent people being more likely to end up taking the edges off through addictive behaviors.

But it also suggests that no one, I mean, often people think, oh, you know, that some drugs have uses that don't.

are not what you think they are.

I'm not saying that paracetamol is the key to social pain, but it makes us think, are there things that we could repurpose?

Is it something to do with this brain-body type that means you're like slightly inflamed or your nervous system is, as I said, you know, trigger happy?

If we reduce your...

heart rate, for example, would that help with some of those feelings?

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