Alterations of empathy for others' pain among patients with chronic pain remained
inconsistent. Here, applying a capsaicin-based ongoing pain model on healthy participants …

Around a quarter of the population report “mirror pain” experiences in which bodily
sensations of pain are elicited in response to viewing another person in pain. We have …

Pain empathy can be evoked by multiple cues, particularly observation of acute pain
inflictions or facial expressions of pain. Previous studies suggest that these cues commonly …

Little evidence exists to confirm whether the sensory-related neural activity that occurs when
observing others in pain is highly responsive to empathy for pain. From a perspective of …

Neuroscience studies on the social sharing of observed or imagined pain focused on
whether empathic pain resonance is linked to affective or sensory nodes of the pain matrix …

Previous research in social neuroscience has consistently shown that empathy for pain
recruits brain areas that are also activated during the first-hand experience of pain. This has …

Background Recent neuroscientific evidence suggests that empathy for pain activates
similar neural representations as the first-hand experience of pain. However, empathy is not …

Many studies suggested shared psychological and neural representations for first‐hand
physical pain and empathy for others' pain, both of which depend strongly upon top–down …

Pain empathy is a complex form of psychological inference that enables us to understand
how others feel in the context of pain. Since pain empathy may be grounded in our own pain …

Empathy for pain activates brain areas partially overlapping with those underpinning the first-
hand experience of pain. It remains unclear, however, whether such shared activations …