For the first time, a neural link between altruism and empathy toward strangers
(University of Pennsylvania) Using fMRI scans of a brain region called the anterior insula, University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University researchers discovered that people who donated a kidney to an anonymous recipient were more sensitive to a stranger's fear and pain.
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