Emotional empathy may be preserved in people with Alzheimer’s disease People with Alzheimer’s disease can retain their ability to empathize, despite falls in other social skills, a new study led…
Frontotemporal dementia disrupts empathy for pain, study reveals New research reveals how behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) alters empathy processing, with advanced imaging revealing profound disruptions in the…
Loss of empathy in frontotemporal dementia linked to brain activity changes Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the capacity for empathy. A study at the Karolinska Institutet has now shown that…
