A Neural Model of Empathic States in Attachment-Based Psychotherapy

We build on a neuroanatomical model of how empathic states can motivate caregiving behavior, via empathy circuit-driven activation of regions in the hypothalamus and amygdala, which in turn stimulate a mesolimbic–ventral pallidum pathway, by integrating findings related to the perception of pain in...

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Main Authors: David Cittern, Abbas Edalat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2017-12-01
Series:Computational Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/CPSY_a_00006