Can the functional MRI responses to physical pain really tell us why social rejection “hurts”? | Zendy

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Can the functional MRI responses to physical pain really tell us why social rejection “hurts”?

Author(s) -

Gian Domenico Iannetti,

André Mouraux

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1105451108

Subject(s) - skeletal muscle , insulin resistance , medicine , diabetes mellitus , pathological , bioinformatics , insulin , type 2 diabetes , obesity , neuroscience , endocrinology , biology

We read with great interest the recent PNAS report by Kross et al. (1). In this study, the authors selected a population of volunteers who recently experienced an unwanted breakup of their love relationship, and used functional MRI (fMRI) to record the brain responses elicited by (i) observing a photograph of their ex-partner as they think about being rejected and (ii) receiving actual nociceptive somatosensory simulation. Based on the observation of an “overlap between social rejection and physical pain[...] areas”, assumed to “support the sensory components of physical pain (secondary somatosensory cortex; dorsal posterior insula)”, …

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