Today you got your first look at the peripheral nervous system, by learning how the afferent and efferent divisions provide information about, and responses to, pain.
Using a group of patients who never feel pain, a study found that their pain matrix still activates in response to stimuli that healthy people find painful.
When ibuprofen molecules encounter a location where the body's pain response is in full swing, they bind to specific target molecules that are a part of that reaction.
These natural hormones, which control pain and pleasure responses in the cental nervous system, can lead to feelings of euphoria, or, what's often called, a runner's high.
Countless health professionals say this will calm you down, and if you are calmed then the emotional response to pain we discussed earlier might well be lessened.
Seeing as Leatherface does react to pain however, it's likely that he is simply psychologically better able to handle extreme amounts of pain compared to the normal person.
Since you mainly use your fingers and your hands to feel the world around you, they’re full of nociceptors, pain receptors that respond to things like pressure and temperature.