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ArticleNature2024

Cortical regulation of helping behaviour towards others in pain.

Mingmin Zhang, Ye Emily Wu, Mengping Jiang, Weizhe Hong

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  18. The Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Prosocial Behavior toward Others in Negative State.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mingmin Zhang *Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Ye Emily Wu *Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8052-1073
Mengping JiangDepartment of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Weizhe HongDepartment of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. whong@ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1523-8575

Funding

Hippocampal neural dynamics driving affiliation and attachmentUF1NS122124 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI DONALDSON, ZOE REBECCA, GOLSHANI, PEYMAN · 2021 to 2021
$4.8M
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Allogrooming BehaviorR01MH130941 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Weizhe Hong · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
Neural circuits for social modulation of a persistent negative emotional stateRF1NS132912 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HONG, WEIZHE, ZHANG, LI I · 2023 to 2023
$3.2M
Unstable nucleus accumbens social representations in models of social behavioral dysfunction.R01MH132736 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Peyman Golshani, Weizhe Hong · 2023 to 2026
$3.1M
Functional Dissection of Neural Circuitry Underlying Parenting BehaviorR01NS113124 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HONG, WEIZHE · 2019 to 2023
$2.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130941NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH132736NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS113124NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS132912NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS122124
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans and animals exhibit various forms of prosocial helping behaviour towards others in need

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalEmpathyGyrus CinguliHelping BehaviorPainSocial BehaviorAnimalsCoping SkillsGroomingMiceStress, PsychologicalWounds and Injuries

Identifiers

PMID38267578
PMCPMC10925558

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