Beyond sharing unpleasant affect - evidence for pain-specific opioidergic modulation of empathy for pain
Markus Rütgen, Eva-Maria Wirth, Igor Riečanský, Allan Hummer, Christian Windischberger, Predrag Petrović, Giorgia Silani, Claus Lamm
This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects affective touch and pain empathy, finding domain-general effects for touch but pain-specific opioidergic modulation for pain empathy.
Cerebral Cortex · Dec 7, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience