Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 781-791

  Singer, Tania ^a   Snozzi, Romana ^a   Bird, Geoffrey ^b   Petrovic, Predrag ^c   Silani, Giorgia ^a   Heinrichs, Markus ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amygdala; empathy; oxytocin; pain; prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRODES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249098726     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014195     Document Type: Article

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