ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2022
Are there distinct dimensions of apathy? The argument for reappraisal.
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- Apathy in Parkinson's Disease: Distinguishing Overlapping Symptoms Via Network Analysis.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2026Article
- The social dimension of apathy: evidence for a distinct domain from 11,243 individuals across health and neurocognitive disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Depression and apathy: examining an overlooked dimension.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- Goal-directedness deficit in Huntington's disease.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Quantity and Quality Matter: Different Neuroanatomical Substrates of Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease and Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Apathy in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Clinical Characteristics, Neurobiological Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Strategies.Behavioural neurology · 2025Review
- Clinical Manifestations and Neural Basis of Semantic Dementia: Converging Evidences From Brain Imaging Studies.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Review
- Apathy and Impulsivity Co-Occur in Huntington's Disease.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Atrophy network mapping of clinical subtypes and main symptoms in frontotemporal dementia.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Association between apathy and caregiver burden in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease with Bilateral Dorsal Striatum Lesion with 6-Hydroxydopamine Exhibits Cognitive Apathy-like Behavior.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Association of Parental Support with Reduced Stereotypy in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Altered reward processing underpins emotional apathy in dementia.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Connectivity patterns of the core resting-state networks associated with apathy in late-life depression.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNArticle
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Abstract
Apathy is widely accepted to be a multidimensional syndrome. Assessment scales typically probe one or more dimensions but there is no consensus on the precise nature of these domains. Existing major theoretical frameworks include cognitive, behavioural, and emotional dimensions of apathy. While a social domain has also been suggested, it is far less well studied. Here we argue that although most assessment scales have been developed with these theoretical frameworks in mind, few findings actually support the existence of some of the dimensions that have been proposed, with the evidence for separation of cognitive and behavioural dimensions particularly lacking. In our opinion, although there is evidence for behavioural and emotional domains of apathy, the contention that there might be a separate dimension of cognitive or executive apathy is far less robust. Further, while there is some evidence for a social dimension of apathy, this has not been investigated sufficiently to make any definitive conclusion. We argue that there is a pressing need to reconsider different domains of apathy using robust analyses of proposed theoretical dimensions.
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