Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain

Highlights • At a regional level, brain responses to social distress and physical pain overlap. • This overlapping activity, however, is not pain-specific. • This overlap cannot be used to claim that social distress is physically painful. • New analysis methods may discriminate physical pain from ot...

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Published in:Trends in cognitive sciences 2013-08, Vol.17 (8), p.371-378
Main Authors: Iannetti, Gian Domenico, Salomons, Tim V, Moayedi, Massieh, Mouraux, André, Davis, Karen D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomical correlates of behavior
Behavioral psychophysiology
Biological and medical sciences
Brain - metabolism
Brain - pathology
Brain - physiopathology
Brain Mapping
Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials - physiology
functional brain imaging
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Metaphor
multivariate pattern analysis
Neurology
nociception
pain
Pain - pathology
Pain - psychology
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
reverse inference
social rejection
Stress, Psychological - pathology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
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Summary:Highlights • At a regional level, brain responses to social distress and physical pain overlap. • This overlapping activity, however, is not pain-specific. • This overlap cannot be used to claim that social distress is physically painful. • New analysis methods may discriminate physical pain from other salient experiences.
ISSN:1364-6613
1879-307X
DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.002