Reply: Spontaneous versus deliberate vicarious representations: Different routes to empathy in psychopathy and autism

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Keysers, Christian ^a,b   Meffert, Harma ^c   Gazzola, Valeria ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMPATHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; INTERVENTION STUDY; LETTER; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SELF REPORT; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84897871421     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt376     Document Type: Letter

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