ReviewNeuroscience bulletin2018
Empathy for Distress in Humans and Rodents.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.
- Social contagion of pain and fear results in opposite social behaviors in rodents: meta- analysis of experimental studies.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Theory of Mind and Empathy in Adults With Epilepsy: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Empathy and Theory of Mind in Multiple Sclerosis: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Cuprizone-induced demyelination model mice exhibit antisocial maltreating behavior: an experimental animal study.Encephalitis (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Hypothalamic-amygdala gating of caregiving-like prosocial behavior in mice.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Article
- 5-HTZoological research · 2026Article
- Recent Advances in Unraveling the Mechanisms of Pain and Itch: The Third Special Issue.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- Low emotional contagious behavior induces PTSD susceptibility in observers and is related to the regulation of oxytocin receptor in mice.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- What do ultrasound vocalizations really mean in rats with different origins of pain?Pain reports · 2025Article
- Exploring rodent prosociality: A conceptual framework.Translational neuroscience · 2025Review
- Mechanistic Insights into the Therapeutic Potential of Phytochemicals Against Stress-Induced Gastric Ulcer.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Review
- Sex-Differential Neural Circuits and Behavioral Responses for Empathy.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- Temporal Unfolding of Racial Ingroup Bias in Neural Responses to Perceived Dynamic Pain in Others.Neuroscience bulletin · 2024Article
- Emotional Contagion and Social Support in Pigs with the Negative Stimulus.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Autism-associated gene shank3 is necessary for social contagion in zebrafish.Molecular autism · 2023Article
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- Persistent nociceptor hyperactivity as a painful evolutionary adaptation.Trends in neurosciences · 2023Review
- Empathy as a crucial skill in disrupting disparities in global brain health.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- An Empathic Pain-Regulated Neural Circuit.Neuroscience bulletin · 2022Article
- A non-canonical retina-ipRGCs-SCN-PVT visual pathway for mediating contagious itch behavior.Cell reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Empathy is traditionally thought to be a unique ability of humans to feel, understand, and share the emotional state of others. However, the notion has been greatly challenged by the emerging discoveries of empathy for pain or distress in rodents. Because empathy is believed to be fundamental to the formation of prosocial, altruistic, and even moral behaviors in social animals and humans, studies associated with decoding the neural circuits and unraveling the underlying molecular and neural mechanisms of empathy for pain or distress in rodents would be very important and encouraging. In this review, the author set out to outline and update the concept of empathy from the evolutionary point of view, and introduce up-to-date advances in the study of empathy and its neural correlates in both humans and rodents. Finally, the author highlights the perspectives and challenges for the further use of rodent models in the study of empathy for pain or distress.
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