Holding someone's hand while they are in pain reduces the pain, and the mechanism is brain-to-brain synchronisation. A 2018 study in PNAS found that when a partner held the hand of a person in pain, their brain waves synchronised, and the greater the synchronisation, the more the… pic.twitter.com/xQXjfkNSpu
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