The influence of EEG oscillations, heart rate variability changes, and personality on self-pain and empathy for pain under placebo analgesia

Abstract We induced placebo analgesia (PA), a phenomenon explicitly attenuating the self-pain feeling, to assess whether this resulted in reduced empathy pain when witnessing a confederate undergoing such pain experience. We recorded EEG and electrocardiogram during a painful Control and PA treatmen...

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Main Authors: Vilfredo De Pascalis, Arianna Vecchio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10071-9