The Neural Basis of Empathy and Empathic Behavior in the Context of Chronic Trauma

Background: Accumulating evidence in social neuroscience suggests that mature human empathy relies on the integration of two types of processes: a lower-order process mainly tapping into automatic and sensory mechanisms and a higher-order process involving affect and cognition and modulated by top-d...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Levy, Karen Yirmiya, Abraham Goldstein, Ruth Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00562/full