Intentional social distance regulation alters affective responses towards victims of violence: An FMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2464-2476

  Leiberg, Susanne ^a,b   Eippert, Falk ^b,c   Veit, Ralf ^b   Anders, Silke ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion regulation; Empathy; Medial prefrontal cortex; Paracingulate cortex; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRIME VICTIMS; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOCIAL DISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866166794     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21376     Document Type: Article

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