Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

By Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O'Doherty, H. Kaube, R. J. Dolan, ChrisD . Frith. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density (2010, background): “The insula is known to be impacted in interoceptive/visceral awareness (Critchley et al., 2004) as well as in empathic responses (Singer et al., 2004).”
An attachment and behavioral systems perspective on social support (2009, background): “For example, Singer et al. (2004) assessed the brain activity of women when painful stimulation was applied either to their own or to their romantic partner’s hand.”
Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. (2005, background): “, 2003), pain (Singer et al., 2004) and touch (Keysers et al.”
Neuroimaging of the Periaqueductal Gray: State of the Field (2011, background): “Observing others in pain may be a subclass of emotional stimuli and leads to an empathetic response that engages emotional pain regions (Singer et al., 2004) including the PAG (Lamm and Decety, 2008).”
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind (2015, neutral): “Therefore, ‘shared’ brain networks have been proposed as an underlying mechanism for our ability to empathize (Decety, 2010; Keysers and Gazzola, 2009; Singer et al., 2004).”
Conjoint activity of anterior insular and anterior cingulate cortex: awareness and response (2010, background): “A study by Singer et al. (2004) is of particular note: AIC and ACC were amongst a network of regions activated by a task eliciting empathy for the pain of others.”
A perception-action model for empathy (2007, background): “, 2003), videos of actors telling sad stories (Decety & Chaminade, 2003), visual cues that a loved one is in pain (Singer et al., 2004), videos of objects displaying disgust (Wicker et al.”
Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control (2007, background): “These regions coactivate in response to varied forms of salience, including the emotional dimensions of pain (Peyron et al., 2000), empathy for pain (Singer et al., 2004b), metabolic stress, hunger, or pleasurable touch (Craig, 2002), enjoyable “chills” to music (Blood and Zatorre, 2001), faces of…”
Evidence for topographic organization in the cerebellum of motor control versus cognitive and affective processing (2010, background): “Further, different cerebellar regions are involved when processing one’s own painful experience (posterior vermis) as opposed to experiencing empathy for another’s pain (lobule VI; Singer et al., 2004).”
Social learning of fear (2007, background): “is also involved when people observe or imagine another individual's pai”
Expectancy and belief modulate the neuronal substrates of pain treated by acupuncture (2005, background): “The belief that real acupuncture (RA) has occurred has been confirmed (Kleinhenz et al., 1999), but we have no understanding of the physiological effect of SN. Nonspecific placebo effects include the natural history of illness, the therapeutic relationship, the process and rituals involved in treatm”
An fMRI investigation of empathy for 'social pain' and subsequent prosocial behavior (2011, background): “For example, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and anterior insula are activated both during the direct experience of physical pain and while watching another in pain (Singer et al., 2004; Jackson et al., 2005; Botvinick et al., 2005).”
Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans. (2005, background): “An emotion-systems view of the brain can also generate new perspectives on affective issues that are hard to study in animals, such as the nature of altruism and empathy, that are currently hot topics in human brain imaging (Singer et al., 2004).”