PMID- 19588282
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091124
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 1747-0927 (Electronic)
IS  - 1747-0919 (Linking)
VI  - 4
IP  - 5
DP  - 2009
TI  - Is the self special in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex? An fMRI study.
PG  - 455-63
LID - 10.1080/17470910903027808 [doi]
AB  - In recent years, several neuroimaging studies have suggested that the neural 
      basis of the self-referential process1 is special, especially in the medial 
      prefrontal cortex (MPFC). However, it remains controversial whether activity of 
      the MPFC (and other related brain regions) appears only during the 
      self-referential process. We investigated the neural correlates during the 
      processing of references to the self, close other (friend), and distant other 
      (prime minister) using fMRI. In comparison with baseline findings, referential 
      processing to the three kinds of persons defined above showed common activation 
      patterns in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC), left middle temporal 
      gyrus, left angular gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex and right cerebellum. 
      Additionally, percent changes in BOLD signal in five regions of interest 
      demonstrated the same findings. The result indicated that DMPFC was not special 
      for the self-referential process, while there are common neural bases for 
      evaluating the personalities of the self and others.
FAU - Yaoi, Ken
AU  - Yaoi K
AD  - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. fin3@t02.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
FAU - Osaka, Naoyuki
AU  - Osaka N
FAU - Osaka, Mariko
AU  - Osaka M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090708
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Neurosci
JT  - Social neuroscience
JID - 101279009
RN  - S88TT14065 (Oxygen)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Brain Mapping
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
MH  - *Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Oxygen/blood
MH  - *Personality
MH  - Photic Stimulation/methods
MH  - Prefrontal Cortex/blood supply/*physiology
MH  - Reaction Time/physiology
MH  - *Self Concept
MH  - Social Desirability
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2009/07/10 09:00
MHDA- 2009/12/16 06:00
CRDT- 2009/07/10 09:00
PHST- 2009/07/10 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/07/10 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - 912991736 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/17470910903027808 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Neurosci. 2009;4(5):455-63. doi: 10.1080/17470910903027808. Epub 2009 Jul 8.