The neurobiology of moral sense: Facts or hypotheses?

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Marazziti, Donatella ^a   Baroni, Stefano ^a   Landi, Paola ^a   Ceresoli, Diana ^a   Dell'Osso, Liliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Frontotemporal dementia; Morality; Neural networks; Social emotions; Sociopathy; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MORALITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIOPATHY;

EID: 84874544874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-12-6     Document Type: Review

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