Empathic neural responses to others' pain are modulated by emotional contexts

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3227-3237

  Han, Shihui ^a   Fan, Yan ^a   Xu, Xiaojing ^a   Qin, Jungang ^a   Wu, Bing ^b   Wang, Xiaoying ^b   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^c   Mao, Lihua ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Emotion; Empathy; fMRI; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649987321     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20742     Document Type: Article

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