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SUBMITTER: Dalgleish T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5294419 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20170207
Social interaction inherently involves the subjective evaluation of cues salient to social inclusion and exclusion. Testifying to the importance of such social cues, parts of the neural system dedicated to the detection of physical pain, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and anterior insula (AI), have been shown to be equally sensitive to the detection of social pain experienced after social exclusion. However, recent work suggests that this dACC-AI matrix may index any socially pertin ...[more]