Extrapunitive and intropunitive individuals activate different parts of the prefrontal cortex under an ego-blocking frustration.

Different people make different responses when they face a frustrating situation: some punish others (extrapunitive), while others punish themselves (intropunitive). Few studies have investigated the neural structures that differentiate extrapunitive and intropunitive individuals. The present fMRI s...

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Main Authors: Takehiro Minamoto, Mariko Osaka, Ken Yaoi, Naoyuki Osaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3893263?pdf=render