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I feel how you feel but not always: the empathic brain and its modulation
Current Opinion in Neurobiology · 2008 · Vol. 18(2) · pp. 153–158
Grit Hein✉(Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research)Tania Singer(University of Zurich)
Empathy and Medical EducationNeuroendocrine regulation and behaviorPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentEmpathyProsocial behaviorPsychologyFeelingSocial neuroscienceEmpathic concernEmotional contagionNeuroscienceCognitive psychologyPerspective-taking
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BrainDominance, CerebralEmotionsEmpathyGyrus CinguliHumansInterpersonal RelationsMagnetic Resonance Imaging
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