Empathic impairment is one of the hallmarks of psychopathy, a personality dimension
associated with poverty in affective reactions, lack of attachment to others, and a callous …

Empathy is a vicarious experience of others' emotions, and is crucial to many forms of
adaptive social interaction. Clinical, experimental, and functional neuroimaging studies …

A deficit in empathy has been repeatedly described in individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) and also, albeit less markedly, in their unaffected relatives. Here, we aimed …

Although extensively investigated in socio-cognitive neuroscience, empathy is difficult to
study. The first difficulty originates in its multifaceted nature. According to the …

Whilst recent neuroimaging studies have identified a series of different brain regions as
being involved in empathy, it remains unclear concerning the activation consistence of these …

In contrast to conventional functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis across
participants, item analysis allows generalizing the observed neural response patterns from a …

Affect sharing and prosocial motivation are integral parts of empathy that are conceptually
and mechanistically distinct. We used a neurodegenerative disease (NDG) lesion model to …

Empathy is a concept central to psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology. The
construct of empathy involves not only the affective experience of the other person's actual …

Theories of empathy suggest that an accurate understanding of another's emotions should
depend on affective, motor, and/or higher cognitive brain regions, but until recently no …

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental states to others, and empathy, the ability
to infer emotional experiences, are important processes in social cognition. Brain imaging …