Adolescents growing up amidst intractable conflict attenuate brain response to pain of outgroup

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 48, 2016, Pages 13696-13701

  Levy, Jonathan ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a   Influs, Moran ^a   Masalha, Shafiq ^b   Zagoory Sharon, Orna ^a   Feldman, Ruth ^a,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The College for Academic Studies   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Brain to brain synchrony; Empathy; Intergroup conflict; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD GROWTH; CONFLICT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAELI; JEW; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PALESTINIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE EAST; MINORITY GROUP; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ARABS; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MINORITY GROUPS; OXYTOCIN; POLITICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84999233571     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612903113     Document Type: Article

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