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Selective decision-making deficit in love following damage to the anterior insula
Cacciopo, Stephanie; Couto, Blas; Bolmont, Mylene; Sedeño, Lucas; Frum, Chris; Lewis, James W.; Manes, Facundo Francisco
; Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
; Cacciopo, John T.
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Fecha de publicación:
03/2013
Editorial:
Research Trends
Revista:
Current Trends in Neurology
ISSN:
0972-8252
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Inglés
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Resumen
Neuroimaging studies have found a correlation between activation in the anterior insula and love, and a correlation between activation in the posterior insula and lust. The present control-case study describes a neurological male patient, with a rare, circumscribed lesion in the anterior insula, whom we tested using a decision task that required he judge whether each of a series of attractive individuals could be the object of his love or lust. The patient, in contrast with neurologically typical participants matched on age, gender, and ethnicity, performed normally when making decisions about lust but showed a selective deficit when making decisions about love. These results provide the first clinical evidence indicating that the anterior insula may play an instrumental role in love but not lust more generally. These data support the notion of a posterior-toanterior insular gradient, from sensorimotor to abstract representations, in the evaluation of anticipatory rewards in interpersonal relationships.
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Cacciopo, Stephanie; Couto, Blas; Bolmont, Mylene; Sedeño, Lucas; Frum, Chris; et al.; Selective decision-making deficit in love following damage to the anterior insula; Research Trends; Current Trends in Neurology; 7; 3-2013; 15-19
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