Functional MRI examination of empathy for pain in people with schizophrenia reveals abnormal activation related to cognitive perspective-taking but typical activation linked to affective sharing | Zendy

Damien Vistoli | Zendy; Marie-Audrey Lavoie | Zendy; Stephanie Sutliff | Zendy; Philip L. Jackson | Zendy; Amélie M. Achim | Zendy

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Functional MRI examination of empathy for pain in people with schizophrenia reveals abnormal activation related to cognitive perspective-taking but typical activation linked to affective sharing

Author(s) -

Damien Vistoli,

Marie-Audrey Lavoie,

Stephanie Sutliff,

Philip L. Jackson,

Amélie M. Achim

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of psychiatry and neuroscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.767

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1488-2434

pISSN - 1180-4882

DOI - 10.1503/jpn.160136

Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , temporoparietal junction , cognition , mentalization , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , theory of mind , insula , perspective (graphical) , social cognition , superior temporal sulcus , functional magnetic resonance imaging , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , prefrontal cortex , artificial intelligence , computer science

Schizophrenia is associated with important disturbances in empathy that are related to everyday functioning. Empathy is classically defined as including affective (sharing others' emotions) and cognitive (taking others' cognitive perspectives) processes. In healthy individuals, studies on empathy for pain revealed specific brain systems associated with these sets of processes, notably the anterior middle cingulate (aMCC) and anterior insula (AI) for affective sharing and the bilateral temporoparietal junction (TPJ) for the cognitive processes, but the integrity of these systems in patients with schizophrenia remains uncertain.

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