Reduction of empathy for pain by placebo analgesia suggests functional equivalence of empathy and first-hand emotion experience

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 8938-8947

  Rütgen, Markus ^a   Seidel, Eva Maria ^a   Riečanský, Igor ^a,b   Lamm, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Empathy; ERP; P2; Pain; Placebo analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALGESIA; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL STIMULUS TEST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PLACEBO EFFECT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930895647     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3936-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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