Brain-to-brain mechanisms underlying pain empathy and social modulation of pain in the patient-clinician interaction

DM Ellingsen, K Isenburg, C Jung… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Social interactions such as the patient–clinician encounter can influence pain, but the
underlying dynamic interbrain processes are unclear. Here, we investigated the dynamic …

Dynamic brain-to-brain concordance and behavioral mirroring as a mechanism of the patient-clinician interaction

DM Ellingsen, K Isenburg, C Jung, J Lee, J Gerber… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The patient-clinician interaction can powerfully shape treatment outcomes such as pain but
is often considered an intangible “art of medicine” and has largely eluded scientific inquiry …

[HTML][HTML] Suffer together, bond together: brain-to-brain synchronization and mutual affective empathy when sharing painful experiences

W Peng, W Lou, X Huang, Q Ye, RKY Tong, F Cui - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous behavioral studies have shown that sharing painful experiences can strengthen
social bonds and promote mutual prosociality, yet the neural mechanisms underlying this …

[HTML][HTML] Patient–clinician brain concordance underlies causal dynamics in nonverbal communication and negative affective expressivity

DM Ellingsen, A Duggento, K Isenburg, C Jung… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Patient–clinician concordance in behavior and brain activity has been proposed as a
potential key mediator of mutual empathy and clinical rapport in the therapeutic encounter …

Dynamic interpersonal neural synchronization underlying pain‐induced cooperation in females

C Wang, T Zhang, Z Shan, J Liu, D Yuan… - Human Brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals in pain are motivated to be cooperative in social interaction. Yet, there has been
little research on how pain dynamically affects cooperation at a neural level. The present …

Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction

P Goldstein, I Weissman-Fogel… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The mechanisms underlying analgesia related to social touch are not clear. While recent
research highlights the role of the empathy of the observer to pain relief in the target, the …

Synchronous with your feelings: sensorimotor γ band and empathy for pain

V Betti, F Zappasodi, PM Rossini… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Neuroscience studies on the social sharing of observed or imagined pain focused on
whether empathic pain resonance is linked to affective or sensory nodes of the pain matrix …

Social hierarchy modulates neural responses of empathy for pain

C Feng, Z Li, X Feng, L Wang, T Tian… - Social Cognitive and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Recent evidence indicates that empathic responses to others' pain are modulated by various
situational and individual factors. However, few studies have examined how empathy and …

[HTML][HTML] Why social pain can live on: Different neural mechanisms are associated with reliving social and physical pain

ML Meyer, KD Williams, NI Eisenberger - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Although social and physical pain recruit overlapping neural activity in regions associated
with the affective component of pain, the two pains can diverge in their phenomenology …

Different circuits for different pain: patterns of functional connectivity reveal distinct networks for processing pain in self and others

J Zaki, KN Ochsner, J Hanelin, TD Wager… - Social …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The ability to empathize with the suffering of others is critical for maintaining relationships
and engaging in prosocial behavior. Recently, a series of studies have demonstrated that …