Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

By Claus Lamm, Jean Decety, Tania Singer. NeuroImage, 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, neutral): “When empathizing with others’ feelings, people recruit the bilateral insula, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and somatosensory cortices during both perception and experience of others’ emotional states (Lamm et al. 2011).”
Neuronal correlates of altered empathy and social cognition in borderline personality disorder (2011, positive): “More specifically, we expected reduced functioning of the anterior insular cortex, which has been proven a key mediator of the otheroriented sharing of the emotions (Fan et al., 2011; Lamm et al., 2011; Singer et al., 2009).”
A Correspondence between Individual Differences in the Brain's Intrinsic Functional Architecture and the Content and Form of Self-Generated Thoughts (2014, background): “It is also possible that the association between social cognition and fALFF in the midanterior insula reflects a direct role of feelings and affective states in generating thoughts about the self and others (Figure 7C) [85,86].”
Empathy and compassion. (2014, neutral): “…very different outcomes that empathic or compassionate responses to others’ distress may have, it is of great importance to understand which factors determine the emergence of these different social emotions and to know more about whether and how such emotional responses can be trained and changed.”
The neural pathways, development and functions of empathy (2015, background): “An impressive body of work, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with both children and adults has reliably demonstrated that when individuals are exposed to facial expressions of pain, sadness, or emotional distress, brain regions involved in the first-hand experience of physical pain”
On the interaction of social affect and cognition: empathy, compassion and theory of mind (2018, neutral): “As the cue-based paradigms require additional inference of the other’s affective state from an abstract cue, the ToM related network is co-active [8].”
The neural basis of empathy. (2012, methodology): “Although results have been mixed (Lamm et al. 2011), some studies have shown a modulation of empathic responses by www.annualreviews.org • The Neural Basis of Empathy 11 A nn u.”
The expected value of control: An integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function (2013, neutral): “…such as social rejection (Eisenberger and Lieberman, 2004; Kawamoto et al., 2012), a loss by a favored sports team (Cikara et al., 2011), pain experienced by another individual (Botvinick et al., 2005; Lamm et al., 2011), and even the hypothetical death of strangers (Shenhav and Greene, 2010).”