article_snippet.sent: If you are a man you may be surprised to learn that there are more than 400 different human emotions.
article_snippet.sent: If you’re a woman you probably knew that already.
article_snippet.sent: Take the problem of pain.
article_snippet.sent: A while ago, when I was making a programme called Pleasure And Pain, we did a survey where we asked people which of the sexes people thought was better at tolerating pain — 81 per cent of women said ‘women’, while a mere 11 per cent thought men were the tougher breed.
article_snippet.sent: That is, our brains process pain differently because our brains are different: our varying ability to withstand pain is proof.
article_snippet.sent: he thinks it is unfortunate that much basic pain research has, until recently, been done in male animals.