It is acknowledged that empathy plays a critical role in the physician-patient relationship and
has a positive impact on health outcomes. However, as the field of empathy expands, the …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

Although empathy is crucial for successful social interactions, excessive sharing of others'
negative emotions may be maladaptive and constitute a source of burnout. To investigate …

Purpose Empathy is a key element of patient–physician communication; it is relevant to and
positively influences patients' health. The authors systematically reviewed the literature to …

To better understand clinical empathy and what factors can undermine its experience and
outcome in care-giving settings, a large-scale study was conducted with 7,584 board …

The Default Mode Network (DMN) has been found to be involved in various domains of
cognitive and social processing. The present article will review brain connectivity results …

Modern medicine has progressed in parallel with the advancement of biochemistry,
anatomy, and physiology. By using the tools of modern medicine, the physician today can …

The topic of typical sex and gender difference in empathy is examined in both a
developmental and neuroscientific perspective. Empathy is construed as a multi‐layered …

Whilst recent neuroimaging studies have identified a series of different brain regions as
being involved in empathy, it remains unclear concerning the activation consistence of these …