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SCIENCE
Volume 302, Issue 5643, Pages 290-292Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089134
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R21MH66709-01] Funding Source: Medline
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A neuroimaging study examined the neural correlates of social exclusion and tested the hypothesis that the brain bases of social pain are similar to those of physical pain. Participants were scanned while playing a virtual ball-tossing game in which they were ultimately excluded. Paralleling results from physical pain studies, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was more active during exclusion than during inclusion and correlated positively with self-reported distress. Right ventral prefrontal cortex (RVPFC) was active during exclusion and correlated negatively with self-reported distress. ACC changes mediated the RVPFC-distress correlation, suggesting that RVPFC regulates the distress of social exclusion by disrupting ACC activity.
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