Healthcare experience affects pain-specific responses to others' suffering in the anterior insula
Corrado Corradi‐Dell’Acqua, Christoph Hofstetter, Gil Sharvit, Olivier Hügli, Patrik O. Vuilleumier
This study shows that healthcare experience reduces anterior insula activity in response to others' pain, but not other emotional states, suggesting a neural basis for pain underestimation by caregivers.
Human Brain Mapping · Aug 22, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience