Can we predict burnout severity from empathy-related brain activity?

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tei, S ^a,b,c   Becker, C ^d   Kawada, R ^a   Fujino, J ^a   Jankowski, K F ^e   Sugihara, G ^a   Murai, T ^a   Takahashi, H ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; COGNITION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISSONANCE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMPATHIC DISPOSITION; EMPATHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; BURNOUT SEVERITY; COMPASSION FATIGUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NURSES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901935388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.34     Document Type: Article

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