Cingulate Cortex

Healthcare experience affects pain-specific responses to others’ suffering in the anterior insula
Medical students and professional healthcare providers often underestimate patients’ pain, together with decreased neural responses to …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Christoph Hofstetter, Gil Sharvit, Olivier Hugli, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Healthcare experience affects pain-specific responses to others’ suffering in the anterior insula
Distraction and cognitive control independently impact parietal and prefrontal response to pain
Previous studies found that distracting someone through a challenging activity leads to hypoalgesia, an effect mediated by parietal and …
Nicolas Silvestrini, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Medical education and distrust modulate the response of insular-cingulate network and ventral striatum in pain diagnosis
Healthcare providers often underestimate patients’ pain, sometimes even when aware of their reports. This could be the effect of …
Giada Dirupo, Sabrina Totaro, Jeanne Richard, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Medical education and distrust modulate the response of insular-cingulate network and ventral striatum in pain diagnosis
Does inappropriate behaviour hurt or stink? The interplay between neural representations of somatic experiences and moral decisions
Embodied models suggest that moral judgments are strongly intertwined with first-hand somatic experiences, with some pointing to …
Gil Sharvit, Enru Lin, Patrik Vuilleumier, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Does inappropriate behaviour hurt or stink? The interplay between neural representations of somatic experiences and moral decisions
Expecting Pain
How expectations shape pain sensitivity and relief.
Regulating Pain
How pain interacts with high level executive functions.
Pain management decisions in emergency hospitals are predicted by brain activity during empathy and error monitoring
Pain undertreatment, or oligoanalgesia, is frequent in the emergency department (ED), with major medical, ethical, and financial …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Maryline Foerster, Gil Sharvit, Lionel Trueb, Eliane Foucault, Yvan Fournier, Patrik Vuilleumier, Olivier Hugli
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Pain management decisions in emergency hospitals are predicted by brain activity during empathy and error monitoring
Modality-specific effects of aversive expectancy in the anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex
Expectations modulate the subjective experience of pain by increasing sensitivity to nociceptive inputs, an effect mediated by brain …
Gil Sharvit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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The good, the bad, and the suffering. Transient emotional episodes modulate the neural circuits of pain and empathy
People’s sensitivity to first-hand pain is affected by their ongoing emotions, with positive states (joy, amusement) exerting …
Emilie Qiao-Tasserit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been implicated in first-hand and vicarious …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Anita Tusche, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tania Singer
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex