2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Searching neural substrate for human empath: a dual functional NIRS study
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24591698
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Psychiatric science
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAMURA Hideaki 新潟大学, 医歯学総合研究科, 非常勤講師 (00361923)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IIJIMA Atsuhiko 新潟大学, 自然科学系, 准教授 (00377186)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 自閉症 / アスペルガー障害 / 自閉スペクトラム症 / 共感 / 前頭皮質 / 近赤外光スペクトロスコピー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To understand typical and atypical brain functions associated with individual differences in empathy among typically developing individuals and its neurodevelopmental variants such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD), we employed dual functional near-infrared spectroscopy technique to measure simultaneously brain responses of the interacting two persons in the real world. The task used here was to play a role as an interviewer or an interviewee for personal experience about 2011 East-Japan Great Earthquake disaster. Prefrontal responses were significantly correlated with two kinds of prosocial personality traits among typical subjects and lower in ASD than in typical subjects.Dual-fNIRS technique with more ecological validity may be beneficial for human empathy study.
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| Free Research Field |
精神医学
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