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Neurosciences
Lauri Nummenmaa, Lasse Lukkarinen, Lihua Sun, Vesa Putkinen, Kerttu Seppala, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Niina Venetjoki, Marja Salomaa, Paivi Rautio, Jussi Hirvonen, Hannu Lauerma, Jari Tiihonen
Summary: Psychopathy is characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy, and egotistical traits. Lower gray matter density in specific brain areas and increased responses to violence were observed in both criminal psychopaths and non-convicted individuals with psychopathic traits. The study suggests that neural alterations related to psychopathy are present in both violent offenders and well-functioning individuals with asocial personality features.
Article
Nursing
Suaad Ghazwani, Amira Alshowkan, Nagla AlSalah
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the level of self-reported empathy among nursing interns. The results showed that nursing interns had a moderate level of empathy overall, and factors such as age, gender, marital status, and preference for nursing had an impact on the level of empathy.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Soroosh Golbabaei, Mina Barati, Morteza Erfani Haromi, Nasim Ghazazani, Khatereh Borhani
Summary: This study aimed to provide a Farsi version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and examine its psychometric properties in the Iranian community. The 16-item IRI was found to be valid in terms of factor analysis and internal reliability, and Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling was superior to Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Gender differences were found in empathic concern and personal distress. This measure facilitates research in the Iranian community and adds to the literature on the validity of IRI in different cultures.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Bumho Lee, Mun Yong Yi
Summary: With the advancements in artificial intelligence, conversational agents now have the ability to display intelligent and emotionally empathetic responses. However, there is a lack of formal measures to comprehensively evaluate how well these agents fulfill the user's emotional needs. This research aims to develop and validate a new set of measures, called the agent empathic reactivity index (AERI), to assess the emotional responsiveness of conversational agents. The study shows that the new measures have strong psychometric properties and validity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Phoebe H. Foster, Lucy L. Russell, Georgia Peakman, Rhian S. Convery, Arabella Bouzigues, Caroline Greaves, Martina Bocchetta, David M. Cash, John C. van Swieten, Lize C. Jiskoot, Fermin Moreno, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Robert Laforce, Caroline Graff, Mario Masellis, Carmela Tartaglia, James B. Rowe, Barbara Borroni, Elizabeth Finger, Matthis Synofzik, Daniela Galimberti, Rik Vandenberghe, Alexandre de Mendonca, Chris R. Butler, Alex Gerhard, Simon Ducharme, Isabelle Le Ber, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Isabel Santana, Florence Pasquier, Johannes Levin, Adrian Danek, Markus Otto, Sandro Sorbi, Jonathan D. Rohrer
Summary: Significant empathy deficits are present in genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Individuals with symptomatic and behavioral variant FTD phenotype, as well as C9orf72 expansion carriers, score lower on empathy assessments.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Gianina Toller, Yann Cobigo, Patrick Callahan, Brian S. Appleby, Danielle Brushaber, Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, Leah K. Forsberg, Nupur Ghoshal, Jonathan Graff-Radford, Neil R. Graff-Radford, Murray Grossman, Hilary W. Heuer, John Kornak, Walter Kremers, Maria Lapid, Gabriel Leger, Irene Litvan, Ian R. Mackenzie, Maria B. Pascual, Eliana M. Ramos, Katya Rascovsky, Julio C. Rojas, Adam M. Staffaroni, Maria C. Tartaglia, Arthur Toga, Sandra Weintraub, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Brad F. Boeve, Adam L. Boxer, Howard J. Rosen, Katherine P. Rankin
Summary: This study modeled the changes in empathy in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and found that empathic concern and perspective taking decline in the early stages of the disease regardless of genetic factors. The loss of empathy is progressive and correlates with subcortical atrophy.
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Shuhan Zheng, Diksha Punia, Haiyan Wu, Quanying Liu
Summary: This study investigated the effects of intranasal oxytocin on brain network characteristics, particularly focusing on the frontal network. The results demonstrated that oxytocin administration led to integrations of the frontoparietal network and the default mode network in frontal regions, with modulation effects on frontal nodes associated with Interpersonal Reactivity Index fantasy values. The findings suggest that oxytocin enhances integration between networks and reduces small-world properties within the frontoparietal network.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kendall Beals, Sarah H. Sperry, Julia M. Sheffield
Summary: The study found that imaginative perspective-taking contributes to paranoia in the general population. However, the data do not point to robust global relationships between empathy and paranoia, or to emotion recognition as an underlying mechanism.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Martina Sebok, Christiaan Hendrik Bas van Niftrik, Niklas Lohaus, Giuseppe Esposito, Mohamad El Amki, Sebastian Winklhofer, Susanne Wegener, Luca Regli, Jorn Fierstra
Summary: For patients with symptomatic unilateral ICA occlusion, impaired CVR may be associated with collateral activation, particularly leptomeningeal collateral. Patients with activated secondary collaterals exhibit more impaired BOLD-CVR values, and activation of leptomeningeal collateral is strongly correlated with severely impaired BOLD-CVR.
JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Stefano Ardenghi, Giulia Rampoldi, Marco Bani, Maria Grazia Strepparava
Summary: This study examines the association between personal values and empathy in first-year medical students. It finds that benevolence and universalism are positively correlated with empathy, while power, achievement, hedonism, and security are negatively associated with empathy. Additionally, the study reveals gender differences in personal values, which may also impact empathy.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Cristina Trentini, Renata Tambelli, Silvia Maiorani, Marco Lauriola
Summary: The study found significant gender differences in empathy and emotional self-awareness, with females more likely to express emotional concern, personal distress, and fantasy, but facing challenges in identifying feelings and exhibiting less externally oriented thinking compared to males. These factors may affect females' ability to differentiate between their own and others' emotions.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Mohua Das Gupta, Anamitra Basu, Rahul Thakurta
Summary: This study examines the relationship between mental well-being and empathy and finds a positive relationship between perspective taking and empathic concern with mental well-being, and a negative relationship between personal distress and mental well-being.
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Christiaan Hendrik Bas van Niftrik, Aimee Hiller, Martina Sebok, Matthias Halter, James Duffin, Joseph A. Fisher, David J. Mikulis, Luca Regli, Marco Piccirelli, Jorn Fierstra
Summary: Brain areas with negative BOLD-CVR responses are thought to have exhausted cerebrovascular reserve capacity and exhibit vascular steal phenomenon. This study investigates motor-task based BOLD-fMRI signal responses in these areas and finds heterogeneous responses, suggesting that vascular steal phenomenon may occur even without complete exhaustion of autoregulatory vasodilatory reserve capacity.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marina L. Butovskaya, Valentina N. Burkova, Ashley K. Randall, Silvia Donato, Julija N. Fedenok, Lauren Hocker, Kai M. Kline, Khodabakhsh Ahmadi, Ahmad M. Alghraibeh, Fathil Bakir Mutsher Allami, Fadime Suata Alpaslan, Mohammad Ahmad Abdelaziz Al-Zu'bi, Derya Fatma Bicer, Hakan Cetinkaya, Oana Alexandra David, Seda Dural, Paige Erickson, Alexey M. Ermakov, Berna Ertugrul, Emmanuel Abiodun Fayankinnu, Maryanne L. Fisher, Ivana Hromatko, Elena Kasparova, Alexander Kavina, Hareesol Khun-Inkeeree, Firat Koc, Vladimir Kolodkin, Melanie MacEacheron, Irma Rachmawati Maruf, Norbert Mesko, Ruzan Mkrtchyan, Poppy Setiawati Nurisnaeny, Oluyinka Ojedokun, Damilola Adebayo, Mohd S. B. Omar-Fauzee, Baris Ozener, Edna Lucia Tinoco Ponciano, Igor V. Popov, Muhammad Rizwan, Agnieszka Sabiniewicz, Victoriya I. Spodina, Stanislava Stoyanova, Nachiketa Tripathi, Satwik Upadhyay, Carol Weisfeld, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob, Mat Rahimi Yusof, Raushaniia I. Zinurova
Summary: This study examined the relationship between empathy and different facets of culture and demographic factors across countries during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. It found that some countries showed more pronounced empathy, while also touching on the impact of demographic factors on empathy.
Article
Nursing
Fatma Birgili, Nezihe Bulut Ugurlu, Nevin Guler Dincer, Gullu Yazkan, Cigdem Alaca, Feyza Acar
Summary: The Turkish version of the Clinical Interpersonal Reactivity Index is a valid and reliable tool for evaluating empathy in Turkish nurses. The study found that the index has a good factor structure and internal consistency.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE
(2023)
Letter
Psychiatry
Upasana Bhattacharyya, Triptish Bhatia, Smita N. Deshpande, B. K. Thelma
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Ram Pratap Beniwal, Manohar Kant Shrivastava, Varsha Gupta, Vikas Sharma, Satyam Sharma, Sunita Kumari, Triptish Bhatia, Smita N. Deshpande
Summary: By analyzing clinical records of suicide attempters, it was found that the reasons for dying and living were both closely related to factors such as family, career, and hope.
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Triptish Bhatia, Nupur Kumari, Ashok Yadav, Ram Pratap Beniwal, Gyandeepak Shah, Wood Joel, Jacquelynn R. Jones, Satish Iyenger, Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar, Smita N. Deshpande
Summary: This study aimed to design a meditation protocol and evaluate its feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy in combination with yoga training for individuals with schizophrenia. The results showed that the meditation and yoga training program was feasible and acceptable, and it had modest benefits for improving the quality of life and clinical symptoms of individuals with schizophrenia. Larger and longer studies are needed to further validate these findings.
ACTA NEUROPSYCHIATRICA
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Upasana Bhattacharyya, Triptish Bhatia, Smita N. Deshpande, B. K. Thelma
Summary: This study identifies variants within human accelerated regions (HARs) associated with cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. These variants affect multiple genes and transcription factor binding sites, and are implicated in neurocognitive phenotypes, autism, and bipolar disorders. Additionally, these variants are enriched for immune response and brain developmental pathways. These findings have important implications for understanding cognition biology and developing improved therapeutics for schizophrenia.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2022)
Letter
Psychology
Ramdas Ransing, Avantica Surve, Aman Mhamunkar, Kumari Padma, Avinash Mane, Rupali Chavan, Smita N. Deshpande
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Satabdi Chakraborty, Triptish Bhatia, Nitin Antony, Aratrika Roy, Vandana Shriharsh, Amrita Sahay, Jaspreet S. Brar, Satish Iyengar, Ravinder Singh, Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar, Smita Neelkanth Deshpande
Summary: The Indian Autism Screening Questionnaire (IASQ) is a tool for screening children with autism in the community, with satisfactory sensitivity, specificity and concordance. The ISAA also showed a high concordance with CARS2.
Article
Psychiatry
Smita Neelkanth Deshpande
Summary: The author's exposure to mental illness in the community and his desire to help those affected led him to pursue postgraduate training in psychiatry in India. Recognizing the need for research to have a significant impact, he focused on training enthusiastic individuals, particularly women, to conduct multi-centered studies. In addition to his research, he also outlines the training programs and outcomes achieved.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Sushree Sahu, Sara Siddi, Antonio Preti, Triptish Bhatia, Smita N. Deshpande
Summary: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE-42) in Indians. The results showed that the Hindi version of CAPE-42 had good reliability and factorial validity.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Biographical-Item
Psychology
Smita Neelkanth Deshpande
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Toyanji Joseph Punchaichira, Prachi Kukshal, Triptish Bhatia, Smita Neelkanth Deshpande, B. K. Thelma
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the association of functional splice variants in dopamine and calcium signaling pathways with schizophrenia. The results showed that these markers were not associated with schizophrenia, but were associated with tardive dyskinesia and cognitive abilities.
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Letter
Neurosciences
Sadhana Singh, Palash Kumar Malo, Abhishek L. Mensegere, Thomas Gregor Issac
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2023)
