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. 2012 Sep 12;32(37):12649-50.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3157-12.2012.

Interpersonal closeness and social reward processing

Pascal Vrticka  1
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Interpersonal closeness and social reward processing

Pascal Vrticka. J Neurosci. .
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Figure 1.
Illustration of the dynamic “push–pull” between social approach and aversion in the affective processing module of human social interaction (derived from Vrticka and Vuilleumier, 2012). According to the phylogenetic perspective of social engagement and attachment proposed by Porges (2003), human social functioning is determined by two opposite emotional brain systems representing positive (social approach; purple) versus negative (social aversion; blue) information. Whereas the social approach module mainly includes dopaminergic pathways (ventral tegmental area, striatum, ventral medial orbitofrontal cortex), as well as the pituitary/hypothalamus as the main site of oxytocin synthesis, the social aversion module operates through brain areas involved in fear/threat (amygdala), stress (hippocampus), disgust/empathy for pain/social rejection (insula and anterior cingulate cortex), and sadness (anterior temporal pole).
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