Deconstructing empathy: Neuroanatomical dissociations between affect sharing and prosocial motivation using a patient lesion model

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 116, Issue , 2018, Pages 126-135

  Shdo, Suzanne M ^a   Ranasinghe, Kamalini G ^a   Gola, Kelly A ^a   Mielke, Clinton J ^a   Sukhanov, Paul V ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Rankin, Katherine P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect sharing; Empathy; Lesion model; Neurodegeneration; Prosocial motivation; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTERPERSONAL REACTIVITY INDEX EMPATHIC CONCERN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRY; MOTIVATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVISED SELF MONITORING SCALE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85013828215     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.010     Document Type: Article

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