http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/2010/04/13/violence-and-empathy-brain-bedfellows/ Wed, 15 May 2013 21:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/2010/04/13/violence-and-empathy-brain-bedfellows/comment-page-1/#comment-4639 Law and Biosciences Blog | Violence and Empathy: Brain Bedfellows? | Neuroscience and Political Science Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:49:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/lawandbiosciences/?p=1176#comment-4639 [...] Law and Biosciences Blog | Violence and Empathy: Brain Bedfellows? In a recent article published in Barcelona-based journal Revista de Neurología, lead author Luis Moya Albiol purports to have shown that the neurological correlates of empathy and violence are, at least in part, remarkably similar. The study supposedly finds that the prefrontal and temporal cortex, the amygdala and other features of the limbic system (such as insulin and the cingulated cortex) are involved in both markedly different human activities. There appears to be some suggestion that both are part of related higher-order processes, and thus are correlated with similar areas of the brain. [...] [...] Law and Biosciences Blog | Violence and Empathy: Brain Bedfellows? In a recent article published in Barcelona-based journal Revista de Neurología, lead author Luis Moya Albiol purports to have shown that the neurological correlates of empathy and violence are, at least in part, remarkably similar. The study supposedly finds that the prefrontal and temporal cortex, the amygdala and other features of the limbic system (such as insulin and the cingulated cortex) are involved in both markedly different human activities. There appears to be some suggestion that both are part of related higher-order processes, and thus are correlated with similar areas of the brain. [...]

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