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Towards a neuroscience of empathy: Ontogeny, phylogeny, brain mechanisms, context and psychopathology

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This review aims at clarifying some of the open definitional questions related to empathy, and emphasizing the need for considering contextual factors in the study of empathy in both normal and abnormal psychology.
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This article is published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 224 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Simulation theory of empathy & Empathy.

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The Theory of Island Biogeography

TL;DR: Preface to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition vii Preface xi Symbols used xiii 1.
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Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior

TL;DR: Examinations of the neurobiological underpinnings of empathy reveal important quantitative gender differences in the basic networks involved in affective and cognitive forms of empathy, as well as a qualitative divergence between the sexes in how emotional information is integrated to support decision making processes.
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The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy—A critical comment.

TL;DR: The aim of the review is to provide the basis for critically evaluating the current understanding of empathy, and its public reception, and to inspire new research directions.
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The overlapping relationship between emotion perception and theory of mind.

TL;DR: The relationship between emotion perception (EP) and theory of mind (ToM) is sought at multiple levels, from concept to neuroanatomy, to produce distinct task manipulations and inform models of socio-cognitive processing.
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The roots of empathy: Through the lens of rodent models.

TL;DR: How simple rodent models of empathy enhance the understanding of how brain controls empathic behaviors is discussed, thereby offering insight into the foundations of empathy in the mammalian brains.
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