Many people experience spontaneous twitching or tremors when they see that someone has been injured. And most of us think it's an emotional "echo" of another's pain, not an analogous sense of pain.

But neurologists from the Max Planck Society found that the same centers in the brain are activated in people who experience pain and those who sympathize with them; the anterior part of the island lobe and the limbic crustal area, specifically the gyrus cinguli.

This suggests that even if a person has not suffered any injury, he can still experience similar pain.

According to scientists, our brain processes pain and other unpleasant feelings, regardless of whether it is our own experience or someone else.

This is very important when communicating with each other because it helps us understand what the other is going through. During the experiment, experts compared brain activation in a personal traumatic experience and in observing such an experience. They found that people who witnessed the injury of another person feel similar pain.