{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Luo Y"],"funding":["National Natural Science Foundation of China","China Postdoctoral Science Foundation","Ministry of Education of China"],"pagination":["1678-1686"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5647812"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12(10)"],"pubmed_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"],"journal":["Social cognitive and affective neuroscience"],"pubmed_title":["Pleasure attainment or self-realization: the balance between two forms of well-beings are encoded in default mode network."],"pmcid":["PMC5647812"],"funding_grant_id":["11JZD044","2016M590918 and 2017T100724 to Y.L.","31600913"],"pubmed_authors":["Yang Z","Huang X","Luo Y","Chen X","Qi S","You X"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Pleasure attainment or self-realization: the balance between two forms of well-beings are encoded in default mode network.","description":"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","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 Oct","modification":"2025-05-29T22:06:35.297Z","creation":"2025-05-29T22:06:35.297Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5647812","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28985373"],"doi":["10.1093/scan/nsx078"]}}