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Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

  • Markus Rütgen
  • , Eva-Maria Seidel
  • , Giorgia Silani
  • , Igor Riecansky
  • , Allan Hummer
  • , Christian Windischberger
  • , Predrag Petrovic
  • , Claus Lamm

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)E5638-E5646
Number of pages9
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Volume112
Issue number41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Oct 2015

Funding

We thank Daniel Graf, Bernadette Hippmann, Julia Hebestreit, Alexander Kudrna, and Andreas Martin (all University of Vienna) for assistance with functional MRI measurements; Fritz Zimprich (Medical University of Vienna) for medical support; Stanislav Katina (Masaryk University Brno) for help with statistical analysis of behavioral data; Andreas Gartus (University of Vienna) for technical support; and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on our work. This study was supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF; Project CS11-016).

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 301402 Neurobiology
  • 301401 Brain research

Keywords

  • pain
  • empathy
  • placebo
  • fMRI
  • psychopharmacology
  • CINGULATE CORTEX
  • INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES
  • PHYSICAL PAIN
  • MECHANISMS
  • EXPERIENCE
  • SYSTEM
  • ANTICIPATION
  • FMRI
  • EXPECTATIONS
  • NEUROSCIENCE

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