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Is pain empathy associated with pain indices and trauma history? A comparison between patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment and healthy controls.
Authors
Zorani S, Peles E
Abstract
To study whether pain empathy and theory of mind (ToM) are related to pain indices and trauma experience, we studied opioid users receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), a population with a history of traumas and a high prevalence of chronic pain.
