Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex

How do the emotions of others affect us? The human anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) responds while experiencing pain in the self and witnessing pain in others, but the underlying cellular mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here we show the rat ACC (area 24) contains neurons responding when a rat ex...

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Published in:	Current biology Vol. 29; no. 8; pp. 1301 - 1312.e6
Main Authors:	Carrillo, Maria, Han, Yinging, Migliorati, Filippo, Liu, Ming, Gazzola, Valeria, Keysers, Christian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 22-04-2019 Cell Press
Subjects:	Animals causality emotional contagion Emotions - physiology empathy fear Gyrus Cinguli - physiology Male mirror neurons Mirror Neurons - physiology pain Random Allocation Rats Rats, Long-Evans rodent social behavior vicarious activity empathy vicarious activity emotional contagion pain social behavior rodent mirror neurons causality fear
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