ReviewAffective science2023
Vicarious Emotions of Fear and Pain in Rodents.
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- Editorial: Animal-friendly methods for rodent behavioral testing in neuroscience research.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular nucleus and fear empathy among male mice.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNArticle
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Affective empathy, the ability to share the emotions of others, is an important contributor to the richness of our emotional experiences. Here, we review evidence that rodents show signs of fear and pain when they witness the fear and pain of others. This emotional contagion creates a vicarious emotion in the witness that mirrors some level of detail of the emotion of the demonstrator, including its valence and the vicinity of threats, and depends on brain regions such as the cingulate, amygdala, and insula that are also at the core of human empathy. Although it remains impossible to directly know how witnessing the distress of others
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