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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Computational Psychiatry |
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| Online Access: | https://cpsyjournal.org/articles/32 |