Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis.

By Yan Fan, Niall W. Duncan, Moritz de Greck, Georg Northoff. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2011

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Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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The neural basis of empathy. (2012, background): “…in vicarious responses in the domain of disgust, pleasant or unpleasant tastes, physical and emotional pain, and other social emotions such as embarrassment or admiration (for recent meta-analyses, see Fan et al. 2011, Kurth et al. 2010, Lamm et al. 2011; for anatomical orientation, see Figure 1a).”
How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network? (2011, methodology): “Compared with recent coordinate-based meta-analysis (Caspers et al., 2010; Fan et al., 2011; Kim, 2011; Sabatinelli et al., 2011), the present study selected the coordinates within different clusters from the total self condition randomly to make four subgroups, and got similar results.”
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).”
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind (2015, neutral): “Meta-analyses show that the anterior insula (AI) and middle anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) are core regions underlying empathic responding when witnessing others' suffering and when suffering oneself (Fan et al., 2011; Lamm et al., 2011).”
From brain maps to cognitive ontologies: informatics and the search for mental structure (2015, background): “…et al. 2010), and numerous other processes—and this variety is recapitulated in an equally broad range of meta-analyses that also report anterior insula activation, such as studies of empathy (Fan et al. 2011), subsequent memory (Kim 2011), and working memory (Owen et al. 2005), among others.”
Development of artificial empathy. (2015, background): “Shamay-Tsoory et al. (2009) summarized the differences between these two separate systems (see Table 2) Fana et al. (2011) reported some differences in the recruited brain regions when subjects were unaware of being tested for empathy (which they called affective-perceptual), than when they were…”
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness (2012, background): “Specifically, studies of adults have revealed enhancements in functional activity of a social-cognitive network supporting facets of mentalizing and empathy (Singer and Lamm, 2009; de Greck et al., 2012; Fan et al., 2011).”
Intracranial EEG signals disentangle multi-areal neural dynamics of vicarious pain perception (2024, background): “…studies have documented the important role of the amygdala in empathic responses 28 – 30 , the fMRI evidence for the involvement of the amygdala in human empathy has been inconsistent 9,54,55 , leaving whether the amygdala is crucial for the processing of human empathy for pain an open question.”