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THE BRAIN CAN FEEL THE PAIN OF OTHERS

Some people feel the pain of others when we observe a painful situation.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of the visual brain suggests that some people have physical reactions in the face of suffering other injuries. With images obtained from functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), researchers from the United Kingdom have found that people who say they feel the pain of others have, fi done several activities in brain regions sensitive to pain after seeing the lament of another person. The study, published Pain in the journal, could help to understand and perhaps treat the pain "functional." "Patients with functional pain feel pain without the presence of an illness or an injury that justifies it," said Stuart WG Derbyshire 's University of Birmingham. The Derbyshire and his colleague Dr. Jody Osborn lhanno shown to 108 college students various pictures of painful situations, such as athletes who suffer an injury and people who have been charged an injection. A third of them said they heard at least an emotional reaction and even a little pain at the site of injury. After this, the authors have done an MRI examination of IRM to 10 participants who reported pain and 10 who have not heard no reaction when he saw the pictures. Identifying changes in cerebral blood flow, the functional MRI can identify the areas most active during the response to a stimulus. 'S team has practiced the IRM to the participants as they watched images of people who felt pain, emotional pictures without pain or neutral images. Looking at the images of pain, all participants had activity in emotional centers of the brain, but those people who responded to others' pain, activity was more intense in areas associated with pain than the rest of the participants and their brain responses to emotional images only.

Dr. Derbyshire showed that these partecipanti dovrebbero evitare la visione di film di terrore e di immagini cruente dei notiziari "per non sentire dolore", che per i ricercatori è qualcosa di più di una risposta empatica. In quanto alle applicazioni dei risultati, il Dr. Derbyshire dice che il suo studio spiegherebbe parzialmente l’esistenza di meccanismi cerebrali che attivano il dolore "funzionale" in alcuni pazienti.

COSA DICONO GLI INSEGNAMENTI VEDICI?

”Tutti quanti dovrebbero sentirsi dispiaciuti di vedere la sofferenza altrui e felici di vedere felici gli altri. Ātmavat sarva-bhūteshu: Dobbiamo sentire la felicità e la sofferenza degli altri come se fossero le nostre. Dobbiamo feel happy seeing others happy, and sorry in front of their misfortune. This is the principle to follow. A Vaishnava, therefore, is really a perfect person, because it affects the sight of the misfortunes of others and feels happy when he sees that others are happy. The Vaishnava is para-duhkha-duhkha, that is always sad when he sees the conditioned souls in the unfortunate state of the material. Thus, the Vaishnava is always busy in preaching the process of Krishna consciousness throughout the world. "


Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada:
"Srimad Bhagavatam"
Commentary Canto 6 - Chapter 10 - Towards 9.