Neural correlates of admiration and compassion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 8021-8026

  Immordino Yang, Mary Helen ^a   McColl, Andrea ^a   Damasio, Hanna ^a   Damasio, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Insula; Morality; Posteromedial cortices; Social emotions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL PHENOMENA;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

EID: 66049117017     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810363106     Document Type: Article

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