Painful situations

1 paper2 findings

1 lab in 1 country

Funder: European Research Council

Humans1

Outcomes

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Imagined pain

upin humans1

1 study

Painful situations increase imagined pain in humans.
“Imagined pain was greater for physical versus social pain”
Human trialn = 240
Neural empathy mechanisms are shared for physical and social pain, and increase from adolescence to older adulthood
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience4 Nov 2024

Mu desynchronization

upin humans1

1 study

Painful situations increase mu desynchronization in humans.
“Mu desynchronization was greater to pain versus no-pain situations”
Human trialn = 240
Neural empathy mechanisms are shared for physical and social pain, and increase from adolescence to older adulthood
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience4 Nov 2024

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Neural empathy mechanisms are shared for physical and social pain, and increase from adolescence to older adulthood

Study of 240 peopleMechanisms