Affective response to a loved one's pain: Insula activity as a function of individual differences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Mazzola, Viridiana ^a   Latorre, Valeria ^a,b   Petito, Annamaria ^c   Gentili, Nicoletta ^a,d   Fazio, Leonardo ^b   Popolizio, Teresa ^e   Blasi, Giuseppe ^b   Arciero, Giampiero ^a   Bondolfi, Guido ^f  

^a Istituto di Psicologia Post Razionalista IPRA Rome   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^d South West London and St George's NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LOVE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN CORTEX; EMPATHY; FAMILY HEALTH; INDIVIDUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PAIN; PERSONALITY;

EID: 78650738231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015268     Document Type: Article

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