Neuromodulation of the right temporoparietal junction alters amygdala functional connectivity to authority pressure.

ABSTRACT: Past historical events and experimental research have shown that complying with orders from an authority has a strong impact on harming/destructive behavior, but no one has ever looked into the potential intervention and its neural underpinning to reveal the toll of coercion. We used a paradigm of virtual obedience to authority, in which an experimenter ordered a volunteer to press a handheld button to initiate actions that carried different consequences, including harming or helping others. In this study, we scanned the brain with functional neuroimaging and applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate the activation of the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) in healthy volunteers in a single-blinded, sham-controlled, crossover trial with anodal, cathodal, and sham

SUBMITTER: Cheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9704788 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature