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This document is Page 88 of a scientific text or academic paper included in a House Oversight Committee file dump (labeled HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021334). The text discusses the neuroscience and psychology of empathy, specifically focusing on self-regulation, the perception of pain in others, and neural circuits (such as the medial prefrontal cortices, ACC, and anterior insula). It references studies involving both rodents and human MRI scans to explain how empathy and pain perception function biologically.
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"Empathy is unlikely to lead to helping behavior if the observer is incapacitated by strong empathically evoked emotions, which is why emotional regulation is an important component in empathy."Source
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"Specifically, in order to understand the emotions and feelings of others in relation to oneself, second-order representations of the other must be consciously available and must not confuse the other with the self."Source
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"The medial and ventromedial prefrontal cortices are known to play crucial roles in decoupling first-person and third-person information..."Source
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"Recently, a handful of functional neuroimaging studies performed with healthy human volunteers revealed that the same neural circuits implicated in processing the affective and motivational aspects of pain in oneself account for the perception of pain in others (7)."Source
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