… first-hand pain sensitivity. To test this hypothesis, the present study aimed to characterize
the relationship between oxytocin, first-hand pain sensitivity, and empathy for others’ pain. We …

… oxytocin (OT) facilitates various forms of sensitivity to others, … effect of oxytocin on the
participants’ empathic responses to … the other-perspective in similar painful situations. Our results …

… Our empathetic abilities allow us to feel the pain of others. This phenomenon of vicarious
feeling arises because the neural circuitry of feeling pain and seeing pain … reduced sensitivity in …

… as sensitivity to the pain of others. This is particularly appealing given the strong interaction
OT has with other neuromodulators, such as dopamine, which are involved in socio-affiliative …

… with the CC genotype using an experimental situation to elicit empathy towards pain. … ,
decreased sensitivity and flexibility in social relations and cultural experiences, favoring poorer …

… Oxytocin (OT) is associated with our ability to empathize and has been shown to play a …
empathy, and with a dysfunctional oxytocinergic system. The effect of OT on the empathic …

… increase during pain observation may be a sensitive sign of empathic … empathic behavior
by reducing the secretion of oxytocin. The role of oxytocin in pain empathy and affective pain …

… specific OT and OT-sensitive circuits, which modulate pain processing especially in
primates, … Oxytocin increases empathy to pain when adopting the other- but not the self-perspective …

… empathic neural responses to others’ pain are more flexible in an intergroup context in G/G
than A/A carriers of the oxytocin … that empathic neural responses are more sensitive to social …

… line with previous studies examining empathy for others’ physical pain in men without ASD,
… might have influenced the sensitivity of A-allele carriers to intranasal oxytocin. There is …