Brain scans differentiate two types of empathy
By Catharine Paddock PhD
published Thursday 8 June 2017
Researchers have shown that empathic care and empathic distress present distinct emotional maps.
Using brain scans, researchers have discovered that empathic care and empathic distress have distinct patterns of brain activity that remain remarkably consistent across individuals.
Writing in Neuron, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and colleagues describe how they developed brain markers that could predict the intensity of the two forms of empathy in volunteers as they listened to true accounts of human suffering.
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