Attachment models affect brain responses in areas related to emotions and empathy in nulliparous women

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1399-1414

  Lenzi, Delia ^a   Trentini, Cristina ^b   Pantano, Patrizia ^a,b   Macaluso, Emiliano ^c   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a,b   Ammaniti, Massimo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affective regulation; Attachment; Emotions; Empathy; Facial expression; Mirror neurons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW; ALEXITHYMIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIMBIC CORTEX; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NULLIPARA; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876414500     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21520     Document Type: Article

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