ArticleScientific reports2017
Hypnotic analgesia reduces brain responses to pain seen in others.
Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on pain empathy: investigating the role of visual information and observers' perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- Effectiveness and reliability of hypnosis in stereotaxy: a randomized study.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Trial
- Healthcare experience affects pain-specific responses to others' suffering in the anterior insula.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Cognitive exertion affects the appraisal of one's own and other people's pain.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Suggested visual blockade during hypnosis: Top-down modulation of stimulus processing in a visual oddball task.PloS one · 2021Article
- Placebo Analgesia Does Not Reduce Empathy for Naturalistic Depictions of Others' Pain in a Somatosensory Specific Way.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
- The Role of Sensorimotor Processes in Pain Empathy.Brain topography · 2019Review
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- Erratum issued
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Brain responses to pain experienced by oneself or seen in other people show consistent overlap in the pain processing network, particularly anterior insula, supporting the view that pain empathy partly relies on neural processes engaged by self-nociception. However, it remains unresolved whether changes in one's own pain sensation may affect empathic responding to others' pain. Here we show that inducing analgesia through hypnosis leads to decreased responses to both self and vicarious experience of pain. Activations in the right anterior insula and amygdala were markedly reduced when participants received painful thermal stimuli following hypnotic analgesia on their own hand, but also when they viewed pictures of others' hand in pain. Functional connectivity analysis indicated that this hypnotic modulation of pain responses was associated with differential recruitment of right prefrontal regions implicated in selective attention and inhibitory control. Our results provide novel support to the view that self-nociception is involved during empathy for pain, and demonstrate the possibility to use hypnotic procedures to modulate higher-level emotional and social processes.
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