Heightened emotional contagion in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease is associated with temporal lobe degeneration

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9944-9949

  Sturm, Virginia E ^a   Yokoyama, Jennifer S ^a   Seeley, William W ^a   Kramer, Joel H ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Rankin, Katherine P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective resonance; Empathy; Simulation; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL CONTAGION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE DEGENERATION; UPREGULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AFFECTIVE RESONANCE; EMPATHY; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84878972923     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301119110     Document Type: Article

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