Feeling the pain of others is associated with self-other confusion and prior pain experience

Some chronic pain patients and healthy individuals experience pain when observing injury or others in pain. To further understand shared pain, we investigated perspective taking, bodily ownership and tooth pain sensitivity. First, participants who reported shared pain (responders) and those who did...

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Main Authors: Stuart W G Derbyshire, Jody eOsborn, Steven eBrown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00470/full