the empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations implications for intervention across different clinical conditions移情作用的大脑及其功能障碍在精神人群对不同临床干预条件的影响.pdf

BioPsychoSocial Medicine BioMed Central Review Open Access The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions 1 2 Jean Decety* and Yoshiya Moriguchi Address: 1Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, 5848 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA and 2Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Ogawa-Higashi Cho, Kodaira City, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan Email: Jean Decety* - decety@; Yoshiya Moriguchi - ymorigu@ncnp.go.jp * Corresponding author Published: 16 November 2007 Received: 19 July 2007 Accepted: 16 November 2007 BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2007, 1:22 doi:10.1186/1751-0759-1-22 This article is available from: /content/1/1/22 © 2007 Decety and Moriguchi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Empathy is a concept central to psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology. The construct of empathy involves not only the affective experience of the other persons actual or inferred emotional state but also some minimal recognition and understanding of anothers emotional state. It is proposed, in the light of