Overlapping Social Rejection and Physical Pain
These fMRIs result from averaging scans from 40 participants to image the brain’s response to physical or emotional pain. We see activation in the insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), somatosensory thalamus, and/or secondary somatosensory cortex (S2).
These fMRIs result from averaging scans from 40 participants to image the brain’s response to physical or emotional pain. We see activation in the insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), somatosensory thalamus, and/or secondary somatosensory cortex (S2).
Research from E. Kross, M.G. Berman, W. Mischel, E.E. Smith, & T.D. Water, “Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain,” 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 108, 6270–