Inability to empathize: brain lesions that disrupt sharing and understanding another’s emotions

Acute lesions that impair affective empathy

(2013) Richard Leigh et al.   BRAIN

Vasopressin modulates neural responses related to emotional stimuli in the right amygdala

(2013) Claudia Brunnlieb et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Is the right frontal cortex really crucial in the mentalizing network? A longitudinal study in patients with a slow-growing lesion

(2013) Guillaume Herbet et al.   CORTEX

Improving social perception in schizophrenia: The role of oxytocin

(2013) M. Fischer-Shofty et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

The Neural Basis of Empathy

(2012) Boris C. Bernhardt et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Affect Recognition, Empathy, and Dysosmia After Traumatic Brain Injury

(2012) Dawn Neumann et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Anterior insular cortex is necessary for empathetic pain perception

(2012) Xiaosi Gu et al.   BRAIN

Stimulating the brain to study social interactions and empathy

(2012) Sébastien Hétu et al.   Brain Stimulation

Parsing the neural correlates of moral cognition: ALE meta-analysis on morality, theory of mind, and empathy

(2012) Danilo Bzdok et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Empathic Deficits in Combat Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury

(2012) David M. Driscoll et al.   Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Insular networks for emotional processing and social cognition: Comparison of two case reports with either cortical or subcortical involvement

(2012) Blas Couto et al.   CORTEX

Caudate nucleus and social cognition: Neuropsychological and SPECT evidence from a patient with focal caudate lesion

(2012) Jennifer Kemp et al.   CORTEX

Impaired emotion processing from vocal and facial cues in frontotemporal dementia compared to right hemisphere stroke

(2012) Chinar Dara et al.   NEUROCASE

Empathy for the social suffering of friends and strangers recruits distinct patterns of brain activation

(2012) Meghan L. Meyer et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Theory of Mind Skills Are Related to Gray Matter Volume in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Schizophrenia

(2011) Christine I. Hooker et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The effects of oxytocin on social cognition and behaviour in frontotemporal dementia

(2011) Sarah Jesso et al.   BRAIN

Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia

(2011) Katya Rascovsky et al.   BRAIN

Selective Frontoinsular von Economo Neuron and Fork Cell Loss in Early Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

(2011) Eun-Joo Kim et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Joint recognition–expression impairment of facial emotions in Huntington's disease despite intact understanding of feelings

(2011) Iris Trinkler et al.   CORTEX

New Potential Therapeutic Approaches in Frontotemporal Dementia: Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Social Cognition

(2011) Elizabeth C. Finger   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Social Cognition, Executive Functioning, and Neuroimaging Correlates of Empathic Deficits in Frontotemporal Dementia

(2011) P. J. Eslinger et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES

Social Cognition Impairments in Relation to General Cognitive Deficits, Injury Severity, and Prefrontal Lesions in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

(2011) Jacoba M. Spikman et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA

Characterization of recovery and neuropsychological consequences of orbitofrontal lesion: A case study

(2011) T. Fisher et al.   NEUROCASE

Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities

(2011) Steven Brown et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Schizophrenia patients are impaired in empathic accuracy

(2011) J. Lee et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Damage to the left ventromedial prefrontal cortex impacts affective theory of mind

(2011) Anne Leopold et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults

(2011) Catherine L. Sebastian et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

The balance between feeling and knowing: affective and cognitive empathy are reflected in the brain's intrinsic functional dynamics

(2011) Christine L. Cox et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Oxytocin Enhances Amygdala-Dependent, Socially Reinforced Learning and Emotional Empathy in Humans

(2010) R. Hurlemann et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The impact of bilateral cerebellar damage on theory of mind, empathy and decision making

(2010) Eliana Roldan Gerschcovich et al.   NEUROCASE

Love hurts: An fMRI study

(2010) Yawei Cheng et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Functional relations of empathy and mentalizing: An fMRI study on the neural basis of cognitive empathy

(2010) Knut Schnell et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

(2010) Claus Lamm et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The Neural Bases for Empathy

(2010) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory   NEUROSCIENTIST

Social conceptual impairments in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with right anterior temporal hypometabolism

(2009) Roland Zahn et al.   BRAIN

Psychophysiology of neural, cognitive and affective integration: fMRI and autonomic indicants

(2009) Hugo D. Critchley   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Of brain and bone: The unusual case of Dr. A

(2009) J. Narvid et al.   NEUROCASE

Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions

(2008) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory et al.   BRAIN

Selective functional, regional, and neuronal vulnerability in frontotemporal dementia

(2008) William W Seeley   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROLOGY

Social and emotional functioning following bilateral and unilateral neurosurgical prefrontal cortex lesions

(2008) J. Bramham et al.   Journal of Neuropsychology

Mentalizing about emotion and its relationship to empathy

(2008) Christine I. Hooker et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Neurology of affective prosody and its functional–anatomic organization in right hemisphere

(2007) Elliott D. Ross et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE