How Situational Context Impacts Empathic Responses and Brain Activation Patterns

Clinical empathy, which is defined as the ability to understand the patient’s experience and feelings from the patient’s perspective, is acknowledged to be an important aspect of quality healthcare. However, how work experience modulates the empathic responses and brain activation patterns in medica...

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Main Authors: Yawei Cheng, Chenyi Chen, Jean Decety
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00165/full