Social Neuroscience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23574494 |
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| Authors | Paul J Eslinger (0000-0002-6032-7801, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118430873.est0358 |
| OpenAlex | W4298854893 |
| ISBN | 9781118430873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Social neuroscience is a rapidly growing area of multidisciplinary research that focuses on the neurobiological foundations of social behavior and related processes. Social adaptation draws upon processes of social perception, mentalizing, social emotions, and social communication. Social neuroscience strives to unravel the anatomical and physiological bases of these processes through study of healthy persons across the lifespan with techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electrophysiological mapping of brain activity as well as study of clinical samples that have diseases affecting the brain (e.g., schizophrenia, autism, traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia). Studies in animal models of social behavior such as nonhuman primates and prairie voles provide critical investigations of neural mechanisms and interventions as well. Social neuroscience is thought by many to be a key area of research that bridges disparate disciplines of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and the social sciences.
Autism · Cognition · Dementia · Developmental cognitive neuroscience · Developmental psychology · Disease · Frontotemporal dementia · Functional neuroimaging · Neuroimaging · Psychiatry · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) · Social cognition · Social neuroscience · Action Observation and Synchronization · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Medicine · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Neuroscience · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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