Highlights•Empathy for pain requires simulation via networks involved in experienced
pain.•Distinct networks support empathy for distinct phenomena like pain, pleasure, and …

Compassion and empathy are viewed as important by both nurses and patients. The
positive emotions that nurses feel as a result of compassionate and empathic practice are …

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in recognizing and verbalizing
emotions and the utilization of a cognitive style that is oriented toward external events, rather …

Decreased tolerance in response to specific every-day sounds (misophonia) is a serious,
debilitating disorder that is gaining rapid recognition within the mental health community …

Alexithymia refers to deficiencies in identifying and expressing emotions. This might be
related to changes in structural brain volumes, but its neuroanatomical basis remains …

Alexithymia is a dimensional trait characterized by difficulties identifying and describing
feelings and an externally oriented thinking (EOT) style. Here, we explored interrelationships …

In the present study, we investigated whether inter-individual differences in vagally mediated
heart rate variability (vmHRV) would be associated with inter-individual differences in …

The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) has received increasing attention for its role in
modulating social-emotional processes across species. Previous studies on using intranasal …

Background Alexithymia is a multidimensional personality construct characterized by
difficulties identifying and describing one's feelings, and externally oriented thinking …

Introduction Empathy—the ability to identify and share another person's emotional state—is
an important socio-emotional process arising, in part, from emotional contagion. In the …