… Brain responses to suffering others. To assess compassion-related brain function, we
designed a task resembling daily-life encounters with suffering others. During fMRI scanning …

… 45 Witnessing others’ social suffering, engaging in empathy … , romantic partners, and friends
separately using a discovery … ±2.57 years) was recruited 524 for behavioral ratings for the …

… brain regions involved in processing empathy and/or … Participants were initially recruited
into one of the three mutually … victimization may elicit different patterns of functional connectivity …

… be quite different, though both recruit what would be considered … neural activity in different
brain regions (emotional suffering: … or clusters characterized by different patterns, such as one …

… Brain regions associated with empathy. A) People instructed to look at interpersonal scenes
and empathize … sensitivity (LSMs) were selectively recruited from a pool based on mother–…

… of painful actions inflicted on strangers’ upper and lower limbs. … , such regions had significantly
different patterns of large scale … We recruited 30 healthy women (mean age of 24.5 ± 6.65 …

… as your friend, you do feel her suffering and probably feel … Similarly, talking with a friend
about a stranger sitting at the … Social interaction recruits mentalizing and reward systems in …

… Ma et al., “Empathy for the social suffering of friends and strangers recruits distinct
patterns of brain activation,” Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, vol. 8, pp. 446-454, Apr, 2013. …

… developing into a socially competent adult, and a formative period for empathy development.
Importantly, regions of the brain that underlie socioemotional and cognitive processing …

… how empathy is related to genetic variation across people and how this relationship varies
through development and is specific to different components of empathy. … , children recruited …