Compassionate attitude towards others' suffering activates the mesolimbic neural system

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2073-2081

  Kim, Ji Woong ^a   Kim, Sung Eun ^a   Kim, Jae Jin ^b   Jeong, Bumseok ^c   Park, Chang Hyun ^d   Son, Ae Ree ^a   Song, Ji Eun ^a   Ki, Seon Wan ^a  

^a Konyang University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Eulji University   (South Korea)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Compassion; Facial affect; fMRI; Prosocial; Ventral striatum septal region

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPASSIONATE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67349256834     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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