The multilevel organization of vicarious pain responses: Effects of pain cues and empathy traits on spinal nociception and acute pain

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1525-1531

  Vachon Presseau, Etienne ^a,b,c   Martel, Marc O ^d   Roy, Mathieu ^e   Caron, Etienne ^a,b,c   Jackson, Philip L ^f   Rainville, Pierre ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empathy; Nociceptive flexion reflex; Pain modulation; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPATHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFLEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958732544     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.02.039     Document Type: Article

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