Reminders of mortality decrease midcingulate activity in response to others' suffering

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 477-486

  Luo, Siyang ^a   Shi, Zhenhao ^a   Yang, Xuedong ^b   Wang, Xiaoying ^b   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Empathy; fMRI; Midcingulate; Mortality

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MORALE; NEGOTIATING; OXYGEN; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898833985     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst010     Document Type: Article

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