Affective response to a loved one's pain: insula activity as a function of individual differences.

Individual variability in emotion processing may be associated with genetic variation as well as with psychological predispositions such as dispositional affect styles. Our previous fMRI study demonstrated that amygdala reactivity was independently predicted by affective-cognitive styles (phobic pro...

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Main Authors: Viridiana Mazzola, Valeria Latorre, Annamaria Petito, Nicoletta Gentili, Leonardo Fazio, Teresa Popolizio, Giuseppe Blasi, Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3002948?pdf=render