The roots of empathy: Through the lens of rodent models

KZ Meyza, IBA Bartal, MH Monfils, JB Panksepp… - Neuroscience & …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Empathy is a phenomenon often considered dependent on higher-order emotional control
and an ability to relate to the emotional state of others. It is, by many, attributed only to …

Cognitive reorganization during pregnancy and the postpartum period: an evolutionary perspective

MV Anderson, MD Rutherford - Evolutionary psychology, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Where the non-human animal research investigating reproduction-induced cognitive
reorganization has focused on neural plasticity and adaptive advantage in response to the …

Age, gender, and puberty influence the development of facial emotion recognition

K Lawrence, R Campbell, D Skuse - Frontiers in psychology, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Our ability to differentiate between simple facial expressions of emotion develops between
infancy and early adulthood, yet few studies have explored the developmental trajectory of …

Gender differences in emotion regulation: An fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal

K McRae, KN Ochsner, IB Mauss… - Group processes & …, 2008‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Despite strong popular conceptions of gender differences in emotionality and striking
gender differences in the prevalence of disorders thought to involve emotion dysregulation …

Multidimensional assessment of empathic abilities: neural correlates and gender differences

B Derntl, A Finkelmeyer, S Eickhoff… - …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Empathy is a multidimensional construct and comprises the ability to perceive, understand
and feel the emotional states of others. Gender differences have been reported for various …

Effects of intranasal oxytocin on emotional face processing in women

G Domes, A Lischke, C Berger, A Grossmann… - …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) has previously been found to reduce amygdala reactivity
to social and emotional stimuli in healthy men. The present study aimed to investigate the …

Women process multisensory emotion expressions more efficiently than men

O Collignon, S Girard, F Gosselin, D Saint-Amour… - Neuropsychologia, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Despite claims in the popular press, experiments investigating whether female are more
efficient than male observers at processing expression of emotions produced inconsistent …

Emotional theory of mind and emotional awareness in recovered anorexia nervosa patients

A Oldershaw, D Hambrook, K Tchanturia… - Biopsychosocial …, 2010‏ - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To examine whether an impaired ability to infer emotion in people with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) and difficulty with emotional theory of mind (eToM) are limited to …

Social cognition and sex: Are men and women really different?

M Di Tella, F Miti, RB Ardito, M Adenzato - Personality and Individual …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Social cognition includes the ability to represent other people's intentions and beliefs, and
the ability to share and recognise the emotions of others. Here, the main aim was to assess …

Extensive early motor and non-motor behavioral deficits are followed by striatal neuronal loss in knock-in Huntington's disease mice

MA Hickey, A Kosmalska, J Enayati, R Cohen, S Zeitlin… - Neuroscience, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder, caused by an elongation of CAG
repeats in the huntingtin gene. Mice with an insertion of an expanded polyglutamine repeat …