Is pain the price of empathy? The perception of others' pain in patients with congenital insensitivity to pain

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2494-2507

  Danziger, Nicolas ^a,b   Prkachin, Kenneth M ^c   Willer, Jean Claude ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congenital insensitivity to pain; Empathy for pain; Facial expression of pain; Pain judgement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIBLE PAIN RELATED BEHAVIOR; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL ANALGESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXPERIENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VISIBLE PAIN RELATED BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN INSENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33749268350     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl155     Document Type: Article

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