Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: An event-related brain potential study

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1676-1682

  Decety, Jean ^a   Yang, Chia Yan ^b   Cheng, Yawei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Empathy; ERP; Pain; Physician

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOWN REGULATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMPATHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEEDLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICIANS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950594043     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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