Background: Schizophrenia is associated with important disturbances in empathy that are
related to everyday functioning. Empathy is classically defined as including affective …

Although it has been proposed that schizophrenia is characterized by impaired empathy,
several recent studies found intact neural responses on tasks measuring the affective …

Empathy is a multidimensional construct composed of several components such as emotion
recognition, emotional perspective taking and affective responsiveness. Even though …

Empathy deficits might play a role in social dysfunction in schizophrenia. However, few
studies have investigated the neuroanatomical underpinnings of the subcomponents of …

Deficits in both empathy and cognition have been reported widely in patients with
schizophrenia. However, little is known about how these deficits interact among such …

Objective Previous research has shown that empathy for pain is disrupted at the neural level
in people with schizophrenia. However, many of these studies have failed to assess key …

BackgroundEmpathy is a basic human ability, and patients with schizophrenia show
dysfunctional empathic abilities on the behavioural and neural level. AimsThese …

Lack of empathy is a critical factor impacting on social functioning and quality of life in
schizophrenia. There is, however, a paucity of research into the underlying …

Background Schizophrenia patients display impaired recognition of their own emotions and
those of others and deficits in several domains of empathy. The first‐person experience of …

While it is well established that individuals with psychopathy have a marked deficit in
affective arousal, emotional empathy, and caring for the well-being of others, the extent to …