Racial bias in neural empathic responses to pain.

Recent studies have shown that perceiving the pain of others activates brain regions in the observer associated with both somatosensory and affective-motivational aspects of pain, principally involving regions of the anterior cingulate and anterior insula cortex. The degree of these empathic neural...

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Main Authors: Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Katharine S Baker, Katherine J Reynolds, Luisa Batalha, Ross Cunnington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3871655?pdf=render