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Empathy and shared feelings of reward motivate individuals to share resources with others when material gain is not at stake. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative disease that… Click to show full abstract
Empathy and shared feelings of reward motivate individuals to share resources with others when material gain is not at stake. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects emotion‐ and reward‐relevant neural systems. Although there is diminished empathy and altered reward processing in bvFTD, how the disease impacts prosocial behavior is less well understood.
Keywords:
frontotemporal dementia;
prosocial deficits;
behavioral variant;
variant frontotemporal;
reward
Journal Title: Brain and Behavior
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Brain and Behavior
Year Published: 2017
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