Empathy is a highly flexible and adaptive process that allows for the interplay of prosocial
behavior in many different social contexts. Empathy appears to be a very situated cognitive …

There are sex and gender differences in pain, which requires a biopsychosocial approach to
fully understand and manage it [16, 17]. Progress has been made in isolating the biological …

Behavioral research indicates that human females are more empathic than males, a
disparity that widens from childhood to adulthood. Nevertheless, the extent to which such …

Background: Medical practitioners such as physicians are continuously exposed to the
suffering and the distress of patients. Understanding the way pain perception relates to …

The nature of interactions between observing pain in others (other-pain) and subjective pain
perception (self-pain) has been debated. To test whether other-pain and self-pain primes …

Pain elicits behaviors in humans and nonhuman animals that serve as social cues. Pain
behaviors serve a communicative function in humans, and this may be true as well in other …

Understanding the mechanisms behind the interaction of empathy for pain (EfP) and
working memory (WM), particularly how they are influenced by social factors like perceived …

To study the neuronal basis of altruistic behavior, we investigated functional connectivity
within brain networks of participants who exhibited either a self-benefit behavior or an …

An integrative neurobehavioral model for “compassion stress injury” is offered to explain the
“double-edge sword” of empathy and inherent vulnerability of helping professionals and …

Background Empathy is an essential element in providing quality patient care. The
significance of empathy is even more striking in pain medicine, as chronic pain is notorious …