Out of sight out of mind: Perceived physical distance between the observer and someone in pain shapes observer's neural empathic reactions

A Schiano Lomoriello, F Meconi, I Rinaldi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Social and affective relations may shape empathy to others' affective states. Previous studies
also revealed that people tend to form very different mental representations of stimuli on the …

Phantom acupuncture induces placebo credibility and vicarious sensations: a parallel fMRI study of low back pain patients

MM Makary, J Lee, E Lee, S Eun, J Kim, GH Jahng… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Although acupuncture is an effective therapeutic intervention for pain reduction, the exact
difference between real and sham acupuncture has not been clearly understood because a …

Empathy for pain: insula inactivation and systemic treatment with midazolam reverses the hyperalgesia induced by cohabitation with a pair in chronic pain condition

CR Zaniboni, V Pelarin, D Baptista-de-Souza… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Empathy for pain is the ability to perceive and understand the pain in the other individual.
Recent studies suggested that rodents have this social ability. GABAergic system has …

How handwriting reduces negative online ratings

V Tassiello, G Viglia, AS Mattila - Annals of Tourism Research, 2018 - Elsevier
This research investigates whether handwriting during the tourism experience reduces
subsequent negative and extreme online rating scores. We portray that handwriting, due to a …

Oxytocin and interpersonal relationships

A Patin, D Scheele, R Hurlemann - Behavioral Pharmacology of …, 2018 - Springer
The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) has emerged as a potent modulator of diverse aspects of
interpersonal relationships. OT appears to work in close interaction with several other …

A precision medicine approach to oxytocin trials

E Andari, R Hurlemann, LJ Young - Behavioral Pharmacology of …, 2018 - Springer
In this chapter, we introduce a new area of social pharmacology that encompasses the study
of the role of neuromodulators in modulating a wide range of social behaviors and brain …

Empathic neural responses predict group allegiance

DA Vaughn, RR Savjani, MS Cohen… - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Watching another person in pain activates brain areas involved in the sensation of our own
pain. Importantly, this neural mirroring is not constant; rather, it is modulated by our beliefs …

Pain mirrors: neural correlates of observing self or others' facial expressions of pain

F Benuzzi, F Lui, M Ardizzi, M Ambrosecchia… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Facial expressions of pain are able to elicit empathy and adaptive behavioral responses in
the observer. An influential theory posits that empathy relies on an affective mirror …

[图书][B] Developmental science and psychoanalysis: Integration and innovation

P Fonagy, L Mayes, M Target - 2018 - books.google.com
As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always
been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what …

The effects of cannabis use on salience attribution: a systematic review

SB Wijayendran, A O'Neill, S Bhattacharyya - Acta neuropsychiatrica, 2018 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveThe relationship between cannabis use and the onset of psychosis is well
established. Aberrant salience processing is widely thought to underpin many of these …