The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: Implications for intervention across different clinical conditions

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Decety, Jean ^a   Moriguchi, Yoshiya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-1-22     Document Type: Review

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