How We Know It Hurts: Item Analysis of Written Narratives Reveals Distinct Neural Responses to Others' Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Bruneau, Emile ^a   Dufour, Nicholas ^a   Saxe, Rebecca ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTERIOR MIDDLE CINGULATE CORTEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LATERAL STRIATE REGION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NARRATIVE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PARAMETRIC ITEM ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PAIN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; SECONDARY SENSORY REGION; SHARED PAIN NETWORK; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; PAIN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876816856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063085     Document Type: Article

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