ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2016
Circles of engagement: Childhood pain and parent brain.
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- Understanding the effectiveness and design of parent-oriented mobile health interventions: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Social rank modulates empathic pain via Galntl6Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Supporting Parents of Youth with Chronic Pain: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Supportive Educational Intervention.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder, stress burden, and quality of life among caregivers of children with cancer in Egypt.Narra J · 2025Article
- Predictors of Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS), Depression, and Anxiety among Caregivers of Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL).Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Article
- Parenting in the Context of Children's Chronic Pain: Balancing Care and Burden.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Supporting Parent Caregivers of Children with Life-Limiting Illness.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Is Empathy for Pain Unique in Its Neural Correlates? A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies of Empathy.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Social interaction can have a profound effect on individual behavior, perhaps most salient in interactions between sick suffering children and their parents. Chronic pain is a difficult condition that can produce considerable changes in children's behaviors that can secondarily have profound effects on their parents. It may create a functionally disabling negative feedback loop. Research supports the notion of alterations in the brain of individuals who observe and empathize with loved ones in acute pain. However, neural activity in relation to empathic responses in the context of chronic pain has not been examined. Ongoing suffering with chronic pain in a child can result in child's brain circuit alterations. Moreover, prolonged suffering jointly experienced by the parent may putatively produce maladaptive changes in their neural networks and consequently in parental behaviors. Here we put forth the conceptual framework for 'Chronic pain contagion' (CPC). We review the underlying processes in CPC and discuss implications for devising and implementing treatments for children in chronic pain and their parents.
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