Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation

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Institutionalizing passion in world politics: fear and empathy (2014, background): “Empathy works best to increase pro-social behavior within groups; empathy can also be used to change the sense of we-ness, enlarging (or shrinking) social identities and identification (see Mathur et al. 2010).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, neutral): “Our logistic regressions revealed that, as in the DMPFC, increased activity in the right hippocampus was likely to occur when participants perceived any instance of emotion in a face, body, or voice.”
An fMRI investigation of empathy for 'social pain' and subsequent prosocial behavior (2011, background): “…have focused on associations between various prosocial proclivities and empathy for physical pain (Hein et al., 2010) or general emotional pain (Mathur et al., 2010), rather than on empathy for social experiences in particular and the prosocial actions that occur spontaneously as a result of…”
Us and Them: Intergroup Failures of Empathy (2011, background): “For example, Black and White American participants show ‘‘matching’’ responses to pain in White and Black targets (in the ACC and insula), but only Black participants show additional activity in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in response to ingroup suffering (Mathur et al., 2010).”