Social Exclusion Amplifies Behavioral Responses to Physical Pain via Insular Neuromodulation - PMC
Kay Tye, Caroline Jia, Andrea Tran, Faith Aloboudi, Ella Say, Nick Thao, Christopher Lee, Kanha Batra, Amanda Nguyen, Aneesh Bal, Jeremy Delahanty, May Chan, Laurel Keyes, Reesha Patel, Romy Wichmann, Felix Taschbach, Yulong Li, Marcus Benna, Talmo Pereira, Hao Li, Nathaniel Nono
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The “Pain Overlap Theory”1 proposes that the experience of social pain overlaps with and amplifies the experience of physical pain by sharing parts of the same underlying processing systems 2-6. In humans, the insular cortex has been implicated in ...