Publications by authors named "Claudia Nuti"
Article Synopsis
- Researchers studied how empathy changes in people with different stages of Alzheimer's Disease, looking at those with mild memory problems and more severe symptoms.
- They found that personal distress, or feeling upset for others, increased as Alzheimer's progressed, while the ability to see things from others' perspectives decreased.
- The study suggests that these empathy changes could help identify Alzheimer's disease early on.
The aims of the study were to assess empathy deficit and neuronal correlates in logopenic primary progressive aphasia (lv-PPA) and compare these data with those deriving from amnesic Alzheimer's disease (AD). Eighteen lv-PPA and thirty-eight amnesic AD patients were included. Empathy in both cognitive and affective domains was assessed by Informer-rated Interpersonal Reactivity Index (perspective taking, PT, and fantasy, FT, for cognitive empathy; empathic concern, EC, and personal distress, PD, for affective empathy) before (T0) and after (T1) cognitive symptoms' onset.
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