Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

The people with a damaged basolateral amygdala were found to be selfish when it came to sharing money with those they felt ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...

In a nutshell Your brain fine-tunes generosity based on social closeness. A specific brain region, the basolateral amygdala (BLA), helps you decide how much to share with others depending on how ...

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