Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

Social Pain and the Brain: Controversies, Questions, and Where to Go from Here

(2015) Naomi I. Eisenberger   Annual Review of Psychology

Reduction of Empathy for Pain by Placebo Analgesia Suggests Functional Equivalence of Empathy and First-Hand Emotion Experience

(2015) M. Rutgen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy – A critical comment

(2015) Claus Lamm et al.   NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Uncertainty during pain anticipation: The adaptive value of preparatory processes

(2014) Eva-Maria Seidel et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Placebo Analgesia: A Predictive Coding Perspective

(2014) Christian Büchel et al.   NEURON

Age-related differences in function and structure of rSMG and reduced functional connectivity with DLPFC explains heightened emotional egocentricity bias in childhood

(2014) Nikolaus Steinbeis et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Separate neural representations for physical pain and social rejection

(2014) Choong-Wan Woo et al.   Nature Communications

Inability to empathize: brain lesions that disrupt sharing and understanding another’s emotions

(2013) Argye E. Hillis   BRAIN

Right Supramarginal Gyrus Is Crucial to Overcome Emotional Egocentricity Bias in Social Judgments

(2013) G. Silani et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Placebo improves pleasure and pain through opposite modulation of sensory processing

(2013) D.-M. Ellingsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanisms of the placebo response

(2013) Fabrizio Benedetti et al.   PULMONARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain

(2013) Gian Domenico Iannetti et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Anterior insular cortex is necessary for empathetic pain perception

(2012) Xiaosi Gu et al.   BRAIN

Cortical and subcortical responses to high and low effective placebo treatments

(2012) Stephan Geuter et al.   NEUROIMAGE

How expectations shape pain

(2012) Lauren Y. Atlas et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Orienting Attention Modulates Pain Perception: An ERP Study

(2012) Sam C. C. Chan et al.   PLoS One

Reduced C-afferent fibre density affects perceived pleasantness and empathy for touch

(2011) India Morrison et al.   BRAIN

Activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of brain correlates of placebo analgesia in human experimental pain

(2011) Martina Amanzio et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Predicting Individual Differences in Placebo Analgesia: Contributions of Brain Activity during Anticipation and Pain Experience

(2011) T. D. Wager et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Felt and Seen Pain Evoke the Same Local Patterns of Cortical Activity in Insular and Cingulate Cortex

(2011) C. Corradi-Dell'Acqua et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex

(2011) Alexander J. Shackman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

A follow-up fMRI study of a transferable placebo anxiolytic effect

(2011) Wencai Zhang et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Getting the pain you expect: mechanisms of placebo, nocebo and reappraisal effects in humans

(2010) Irene Tracey   NATURE MEDICINE

Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

(2010) Claus Lamm et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The Neural Bases for Empathy

(2010) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory   NEUROSCIENTIST

The pain matrix reloaded

(2010) Valéry Legrain et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

(2009) Tania Singer et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Circular analysis in systems neuroscience: the dangers of double dipping

(2009) Nikolaus Kriegeskorte et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Can We Share a Pain We Never Felt? Neural Correlates of Empathy in Patients with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain

(2009) Nicolas Danziger et al.   NEURON

Activation of the Opioidergic Descending Pain Control System Underlies Placebo Analgesia

(2009) Falk Eippert et al.   NEURON

Evidence for mirror systems in emotions

(2009) J. A. C. J. Bastiaansen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inferences about mental states

(2009) J. P. Mitchell   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

(2009) Tania Singer et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy

(2008)   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Blockade of Endogenous Opioid Neurotransmission Enhances Acquisition of Conditioned Fear in Humans

(2008) F. Eippert et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The neural correlates of visual mental imagery: An ongoing debate

(2007) Paolo Bartolomeo   CORTEX