Clan mentality: Evidence that the medial prefrontal cortex responds to close others

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 13906-13915

  Krienen, Fenna M ^a,b,c   Tu, Pei Chi ^c,d   Buckner, Randy L ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRIEND; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTIMACY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958074165     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2180-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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