ArticleFrontiers in neurology2018
Enhanced Positive Emotional Reactivity Undermines Empathy in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.
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- Facial expression recognition deficits in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analytic investigation of effects of phenotypic variant, task modality, geographical region and symptomatic specificity.Journal of neurology · 2023Pooled it
- The effects of psychosocial interventions using generic photos on social interaction, mood and quality of life of persons with dementia: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of intergenerational participation on residents with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Nursing open · 2022Pooled it
- Speech and language impairments in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Neural effects of oxytocin and mimicry in frontotemporal dementia: A randomized crossover study.Neurology · 2020Trial
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- Criminal Behavior in Frontotemporal Dementia: A Multimodal MRI Study.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Interpersonal Physiological Linkage Between People With Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease and Their Informal Caregivers.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Resting state functional brain networks associated with emotion processing in frontotemporal lobar degeneration.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Article
- Enhanced positive emotional reactivity in frontotemporal dementia reflects left-lateralized atrophy in the temporal and frontal lobes.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2022Article
- Social cognition in the FTLD spectrum: evidence from MRI.Journal of neurology · 2022Review
- Oxytocin and serotonin in the modulation of neural function: Neurobiological underpinnings of autism-related behavior.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Convergent regional brain abnormalities in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: A neuroimaging meta-analysis of 73 studies.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Review
- The tension between carrying a burden and feeling like a burden: a qualitative study of informal caregivers' and care recipients' experiences after patient discharge from hospital.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2021Article
- Altered phobic reactions in frontotemporal dementia: A behavioural and neuroanatomical analysis.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2020Article
- Comparing two facets of emotion perception across multiple neurodegenerative diseases.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Analyzing Brain Connectivity in the Mutual Regulation of Emotion-Movement Using Bidirectional Granger Causality.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Impact Factors of Empathy in Mainland Chinese Youth.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Physiological, behavioral and subjective sadness reactivity in frontotemporal dementia subtypes.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Empathy In Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Systematic Review.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Review
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Abstract
Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by profound changes in emotions and empathy. Although most patients with bvFTD become less sensitive to negative emotional cues, some patients become more sensitive to positive emotional stimuli. We investigated whether dysregulated positive emotions in bvFTD undermine empathy by making it difficult for patients to share (emotional empathy), recognize (cognitive empathy), and respond (real-world empathy) to emotions in others. Fifty-one participants (26 patients with bvFTD and 25 healthy controls) viewed photographs of neutral, positive, negative, and self-conscious emotional faces and then identified the emotions displayed in the photographs. We used facial electromyography to measure automatic, sub-visible activity in two facial muscles during the task:
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