Empathy Deficits and Social Cognition Impairment: Clinical Features, Mechanisms, Differential Diagnosis, Care
Empathy deficits refer to difficulties in perceiving, interpreting, or appropriately responding to others’ emotional states and perspectives. Clinically, they are not a single diagnosis but a functional impairment that can emerge across multiple neuropsychiatric conditions. Empathy is commonly conceptualized as comprising at least two partially separable processes: affective empathy (sharing or resonating with another’s emotions)… Read More »