Impaired Empathy Versus General Hypoemotionality in Frontotemporal Dementia.

CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that patients with bvFTD have decreased empathic behavior with or without emotional blunting, and they exhibit decreased psychophysiological responses to empathy stimuli, independent of general emotion. These preliminary findings suggest a specific impairment in emotional empathy, possibly related to impairment of the emotional appraisal role of the dACC. PMID: 31046591 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci Source Type: research