Pleasure attainment or self-realization: the balance between two forms of well-beings are encoded in default mode network.

ABSTRACT: What is a good life and how it can be achieved is one of the fundamental issues. When considering a good life, there is a division between hedonic (pleasure attainment) and eudaimonic well-being (meaning pursuing and self-realization). However, an integrated approach that can compare the brain functional and structural differences of these two forms of well-being is lacking. Here, we investigated how the individual tendency to eudaimonic well-being relative to hedonic well-being, measured using eudaimonic and hedonic balance (EHB) index, is reflected in the functional and structural features of a key network of well-being-the default mode network (DMN). We found that EHB was positively correlated with functional connectivity of bilateral ventral medial prefrontal cortex within anterior DMN

SUBMITTER: Luo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647812 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature