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. 2012 Mar 5;367(1589):717–730. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0293

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Figure 6. — Whole brain random effects analyses: brain regions involved in representing emotional suffering. (a) Regions showing higher responses to stories about emotional suffering than physical pain, for all participants and targets, including (1) DMPFC, (2) VMPFC, (3) PC, (4) LTPJ, (5) RTPJ, (6) left anterior temporal and (7) right anterior temporal regions. Functional activations corrected for multiple comparisons, p < 0.05; shown on a canonical template brain. DMPFC and VMPFC, dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal cortex; PC, precuneus; L- and RTPJ, left and right temporo-parietal junction. (b) The same regions are recruited more during stories about South American targets' emotional suffering, than for neutral control stories about South American targets, the no-pain control condition.