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The anatomy of empathy: Vicarious experience and disorders of social cognition

The anatomy of empathy: Vicarious experience and disorders of social cognition

Behav Brain Res. 2016 Sep 15; 311: 255–266. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.05.048 PMCID: PMC4942880 PMID: 27235714 Patricia L. Lockwood Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Empathy, the ability to vicariously experience and to understand the affect of other people, is fundamental for successful social-cognitive ability and behaviour. Empathy is thought to be a critical facilitator of prosocial behaviour and is disrupted in a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders….

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The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions

The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions

Jean Decety and Yoshiya Moriguchi BioPsychoSocial MedicineThe official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine20071:22 https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0759-1-22 ©  Decety and Moriguchi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007 Received: 19 July 2007 Accepted: 16 November 2007 Published: 16 November 2007 Abstract 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 or inferred emotional state but also some minimal recognition and understanding of another’s emotional state. It is proposed, in the light of multiple levels…

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