Study Says Empathy May Cause Real Pain Thu Feb 19, 2:01 PM ET By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
A groundbreaking study shows that some of the same brain regions involved in feeling physical pain
become activated when someone empathizes with another's pain.
And when it's time to feel better, thinking that a drug helps can make it so, according to a
different brain-scanning study that finally caught the power of placebo in action.
The studies, reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science, provide important new evidence of
the power of the mind, said Dr. Jon Levine, a pain specialist at the University of California, San
Francisco, who reviewed the research.
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