{"id":154865,"date":"2021-01-15T01:57:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-mice-can-catch-each-others-pain-and-pain-relief\/"},"modified":"2021-01-15T01:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:57:16","slug":"how-mice-can-catch-each-others-pain-and-pain-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-mice-can-catch-each-others-pain-and-pain-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"#How mice can ‘catch’ each other’s pain \u2014 and pain relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How mice can ‘catch’ each other’s pain \u2014 and pain relief<\/strong>”
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\u201cI feel your pain,\u201d says one mouse to the other.<\/p>\n

Humans have been known to \u201ccatch feelings\u201d from time to time, but mice are rubbing off on each other a feeling much worse: pain. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, they\u2019re also benefitting from secondhand relief, leading Stanford neuroscientist Monique Smith to wonder how physical empathy could be app<\/a>lied to therapy for patients with emotional and behavioral disorders.<\/p>\n

\u201cPain isn\u2019t just a physical experience. It\u2019s an emotional experience,\u201d Smith told Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new study, published last week in Science,<\/a> described experiments in which mice companions were observed following painful injections and prodding by lab scientists. They found that the unaffected mouse displayed behavior and a heightened physical sensitivity consistent with its pal, the one who had actually endured the shot. <\/p>\n

This effect worked both ways. In another test, one mouse got the poke, while the other got a palliative dose of morphine. In a few hours, the mouse who originally drew the short straw seemed as relaxed as his blissed-out buddy. <\/p>\n

Brain scans revealed that both mice were sparking nerve cells in an area of the brain concerning memory and cognition, two functions associated with human empathy, according to neuroscientists. Neurons in this region also reached parts of the brain dealing with motivation and social<\/a> behavior \u2014 so when researchers decided to block communication between these two parts, they found the mice no longer took on the other\u2019s pain or relief. <\/p>\n

A study published<\/a> in September of last year demonstrated a similar neurological process in binge drinkers, who struggled to exhibit empathy for people in pain compared to non-binge drinkers in the study. A look inside with an MRI showed that the brains of heavy drinkers appeared to be working harder to comprehend the pain of others, and unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n

This effect, said study author Theodora Duka, \u201cmay facilitate [more] drinking\u201d by obfuscating how their drunken behavior hurts others.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#How mice can ‘catch’ each other’s pain \u2014 and pain relief” \u201cI feel your pain,\u201d says one mouse to the other. Humans have been known to \u201ccatch feelings\u201d from time to time, but mice are rubbing off on each other a feeling much worse: pain. On the other hand, they\u2019re also benefitting from secondhand relief,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/mice-catch-eachothers-pain-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[89450,71595,70781,61514,82089,67907],"class_list":["post-154865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-14-21","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-research","tag-rodents","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}