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regional neural oscillations in nociceptive processing nectivity between the left sensorimotor cortex and left
underlying acute and chronic pains. anterior insula predicted reduced subjective feelings of
other-race suffering. Our results unraveled distinct pat-
Keywords: chronic pain, connectivity, magnetoencepha- terns of modulations of neural dynamics of sensorimo-
lography (MEG), oscillations, pain tor, affective, and cognitive components of empathy
by interracial relationships between an observer and
The Neuroscientist: a review journal bringing a target person, which provide possible brain mecha-
neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry (2021), Vol. 27, nisms for understanding racial ingroup favoritism in
No. 5 (32981457) (22 citations) social behavior.

Keywords: Alpha oscillation, Empathy, MEG, Race, Pain
Neural dynamics of pain expression processing: expression
Alpha-band synchronization to same-race pain but
desynchronization to other-race pain (2021) NeuroImage (2021), Vol. 224 (32979524) (9 citations)

Zhou, Yuqing; Han, Shihui
BCI training to move a virtual hand reduces
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PKU-IDG/ phantom limb pain: A randomized crossover trial
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Key Laboratory (2020)
of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, 52 Haidian
Road, Beijing 100080, China; School of Psychological and Yanagisawa, Takufumi; Fukuma, Ryohei; Seymour, Ben;
Cognitive Sciences, PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Tanaka, Masataka; Hosomi, Koichi; Yamashita, Okito;
Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Kishima, Haruhiko; Kamitani, Yukiyasu; Saitoh, Youichi
Health, Peking University, 52 Haidian Road, Beijing 100080,
China. Electronic address: [email protected] From the Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies (T.Y.),
Osaka University; Departments of Neurosurgery (T.Y., R.F., M.T.,
ABSTRACT Both electroencephalography and func- K.H., H.K., Y.S.) and Neuromodulation and Neurosurgery (K.H.,
tional magnetic resonance imaging studies have Y.S.), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; Depart-
revealed enhanced neural responses to perceived pain ment of Neuroinformatics (T.Y., R.F., Y.K.), ATR Computational
in same-race than other-race individuals. However, Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan; Computational and
it remains unclear how neural responses in the sen- Biological Learning Laboratory, Department of Engineering
sorimotor, cognitive, and affective subsystems vary (B.S.), University of Cambridge, UK; Center for Information
dynamically in the first few hundreds of milliseconds and Neural Networks (B.S.), National Institute for Information
to generate racial ingroup favoritism in empathy for and Communications Technology, Osaka; RIKEN Center for
pain. We recorded magnetoencephalography signals to Advanced Intelligence Project (O.Y.), Tokyo; Department of
pain and neutral expressions of Asian and white faces Computational Brain Imaging (O.Y.), ATR Neural Information
from Chinese adults during judgments of racial identity Analysis Laboratories, Kyoto; and Graduate School of Infor-
of each face. We found that pain compared to neutral matics (Y.K.), Kyoto University, Japan. tyanagisawa@nsurg.
expressions of same-race faces induced early increased med.osaka-u.ac.jp
alpha oscillations in the precuneus/parietal cortices
followed by increased alpha-band oscillations in the OBJECTIVE To determine whether training with a
left anterior insula and temporoparietal junction. Pain brain-computer interface (BCI) to control an image of a
compared to neutral expressions of other-race faces, phantom hand, which moves based on cortical currents
however, induced early suppression of alpha-band estimated from magnetoencephalographic signals,
oscillations in the bilateral sensorimotor cortices and reduces phantom limb pain.
left insular cortex. Moreover, decreased functional con-

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