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The pro-social tendency to share emotional states and seek support during stress reduces activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a region essential for emotional regulation. This process also ...

The researchers found that political involvement was more intense in people who had experienced lesions connected to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the posterior ... experienced lesions ...

Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing ...

In particular, while brain injuries in the prefrontal cortex were tied to increased political passion, brain injuries in the amygdala were tied to decreased political passion. These results suggest ...