Neural responses to perceiving suffering in humans and animals

I feel your pain: Emotional closeness modulates neural responses to empathically experienced rejection

(2011) Joseph E. Beeney et al.   Social Neuroscience

Love hurts: An fMRI study

(2010) Yawei Cheng et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The role of the right inferior frontal gyrus: inhibition and attentional control

(2010) Adam Hampshire et al.   NEUROIMAGE

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 Brain Functional Networks Associated to Human and Animal Suffering Differ among Omnivores, Vegetarians and Vegans

(2010) Massimo Filippi et al.   PLoS One

Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation

(2009) Reginald B. Adams et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

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

Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions

(2008) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory et al.   BRAIN