Oxytocin and vasopressin enhance social pain empathy via common and distinct of neural expressions, genetic pathways, and networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, number 39, September 2025.
The difficulty of social distress activates the empathy of social pain, modulated by oxytocin (OXT) and vasopressin to arginine (AVP). By using functional magnetic resonance imaging (IRM), the analysis of gene expression and pharmacological approaches, us …