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Oxytocin reduces neural activity in the pain circuitry when seeing pain in others

Our empathetic abilities allow us to feel the pain of others. This phenomenon of vicarious feeling arises because the neural circuitry of feeling pain and seeing pain in others is shared. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is considered a robust facilitator of empathy, as intranasal OXT studies have re...

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Published in:Neuroimage
Main Authors: Bos, Peter A., Montoya, Estrella R., Hermans, Erno J., Keysers, Christian, van Honk, Jack
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562366/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25818690
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.049
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