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Vicarious trauma primes innate immunity and reconfigures human brain networks

2026-01-06

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Vicarious trauma-witnessing serious harm to others-produces systemic neuroimmune effects in animal models. However, its brain, autonomic, and immune consequences in humans remain unclear. We scanned 88 participants with fMRI during a naturalistic movie-viewing paradigm depicting either industrial cruelty to farm animals (Vicarious Trauma, VT) or positive human-animal interactions (Vicarious Community, VC) with con...

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Literature Corpus work: 7adb2e11-040e-5472-8085-e4cb4417769f
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.05.697785

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