Brain Regions

Default Mode Network

• Temporoparietal Junction TPJ

• Posterior Cingulate Cortex PCC

• Temporal Lobe

• Medial Prefrontal Cortex MPFC

• MPFC and PCC main networks

Social Pain

• Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex dACC (real distress)

• Anterior Insula AI (real distress)

• Posterior Insula (sensory pain)

• Somatosensory Cortex (s1 and s2) (sensory pain)

  • s1 = lateral

    • sensations on outside of body

  • s2 = medial

    • goes into posterior insula

    • sensations for inside body

• dACC and AI main networks

Social Pleasures

• ventral striatum VS

  • anticipation and outcome, more anticipation

  • prefers gains to losses

  • more active to gains

• Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex VMPFC

  • outcome only

  • prefers gains to losses

  • more active to gains

Social Perception

• Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus PSTS

• Fusiform Face Area FFA (part of the fusiform gyrus)

• Amygdala

• Primary/Early Visual Cortex V1

Mentalizing

• Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex DMPFC

• Temporoparietal Junction TPJ

• Posterior Cingulate Cortex PCC

• Anterior Temporal Lobes

• DMPFC and TPJ are the main networks

Mirror Neuron System

• Primary Motor Cortex

• Ventral Premotor Cortex vPMC

• Rostral Inferior Parietal Lobule rIPL

• Anterior Intraparietal Sulcus aIPS

• vPMC, rIPL, and aIPS are the main networks