Seeing the pain of others while being in pain: A laser-evoked potentials study

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1419-1428

  Valeriani, Massimiliano ^a   Betti, Viviana ^b,c   Le Pera, Domenica ^d   De Armas, Liala ^d   Miliucci, Roberto ^a   Restuccia, Domenico ^e   Avenanti, Alessio ^b,f   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^b,f  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER EVOKED POTENTIAL; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LASERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 40849106453     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.056     Document Type: Article

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