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Top-down influence of the inferior frontal gyrus on motor cortex excitability during pain empathy.

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Authors: Pengju Zhang1, Yitong Lin1, Yuting Li1,2, Jianing Wei3, Xinfan Wu4, Xiaoying Tan4, Jian Zhang1
ORCID iDs: Pengju Zhang, Xiaoying Tan, Jian Zhang
  1. School of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport,Shanghai, China
  2. School of Nursing, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine,Hefei, China
  3. Sports Institute, Henan University of Science and Technology,Luoyang, China
  4. Faculty of Health Sciences and Sports, Macao Polytechnic University,Macao SAR, China
Institutions: Shanghai University of Sport (China); Anhui University (China); Henan University of Science and Technology (China); Macao Polytechnic University (Macao SAR China)
Journal: Communications biology, volume 9, issue 1, article 1011
Dates: received 9 October 2025; accepted 11 June 2026; published online 24 June 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1038/s42003-026-10529-w · PMID 42342923 · PMCID PMC13400638 · OpenAlex W7165783670
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: code on request
Categories: other (modality), human (organism), pain (population), systems (subfield)
Methods: Spectral & time-frequency, Connectivity, Statistics, Preprocessing, Evoked potentials, Single-unit activity, calcium imaging, Physiology & signal measures
Keywords: Human behaviour, Neurophysiology, Prefrontal cortex
MeSH: Empathy*, Motor Cortex*, Pain*, Prefrontal Cortex*, Adult, Bayes Theorem, Evoked Potentials, Motor, Female, Humans, Male, Pain Perception, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Young Adult (* major topic)
Topic: Action Observation and Synchronization (Social Psychology, Psychology), according to OpenAlex
Funding: National Science Foundation of China | Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese Scholars and Scholars in Hong Kong and Macao; Macao Polytechnic University (Grant No. RP/FCSD-04/2022)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 90 references in the paper

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Zhang, P., Lin, Y., Li, Y., Wei, J., Wu, X., Tan, X., & Zhang, J. (2026). Top-down influence of the inferior frontal gyrus on motor cortex excitability during pain empathy. Communications biology, 9(1), 1011. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10529-w

BibTeX

@article{zhang2026top,
author = {Zhang, Pengju and Lin, Yitong and Li, Yuting and Wei, Jianing and Wu, Xinfan and Tan, Xiaoying and Zhang, Jian},
title = {{Top-down influence of the inferior frontal gyrus on motor cortex excitability during pain empathy}},
journal = {Communications biology},
year = {2026},
month = jun,
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {1011},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
issn = {2399-3642},
doi = {10.1038/s42003-026-10529-w},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10529-w},
pmid = {42342923},
pmcid = {PMC13400638}
}

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AU - Zhang, Pengju
AU - Lin, Yitong
AU - Li, Yuting
AU - Wei, Jianing
AU - Wu, Xinfan
AU - Tan, Xiaoying
AU - Zhang, Jian
TI - Top-down influence of the inferior frontal gyrus on motor cortex excitability during pain empathy
T2 - Communications biology
J2 - Commun Biol
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/24
VL - 9
IS - 1
SP - 1011
SN - 2399-3642
PB - Nature Publishing Group
DO - 10.1038/s42003-026-10529-w
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10529-w
LA - en
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