Bruce Willis's diagnosis brings global attention to a misunderstood brain disorder that affects personality and speech before ...

Frontotemporal Dementia is complex in how it literally changes the essence of a person. Public figures such as Bruce Willis; ...

Empathy and brain function Empathy is typically thought to be comprised of two dimensions. Emotional empathy is the ability to react to others’ feelings (such as their distress and concern).

What condition does actor Bruce Willis suffer from? Here's how a neurologist explained frontotemporal dementia, which has no cure and is uncommon.

Ballesta, S. and others (2015). Rudimentary empathy in macaques’ social decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Auyeung. B. and others (2015).

Cognitive empathy is when we use our understanding, rather than our feelings, to connect with others who are different from us. It helps us think past our initial biases.

A lack of empathy cost me. Whether you know it or not, lacking empathy is costing you, too. The easiest thing in the world is to toss around judgements like “lazy” to describe people.

After studying and noting a decline in empathy in young people between 1979 and 2009, Konrath, director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University ...

People tend to think of empathy or caring about other people's feelings as a good thing, but in some conservative circles, there's a growing chorus of voices arguing that empathy could be bad.

Empathy development doesn’t occur within the context of a single monologue, rather a series of chats over time. When your teens come to you for help or advice, drop everything (especially your ...

When empathy becomes unmoored from ethics, it becomes coercion with a smile. We see this now with artificial intelligence, where systems are increasingly trained to simulate empathic responses.