A paper by Associate Professor Nobuhito Abe and colleagues has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

A paper by Associate Professor Nobuhito Abe and colleagues, entitled “Brain and behavioral alterations in subjects with social anxiety dominated by empathic embarrassment,” has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

This study used fMRI to approach the neural basis of Taijin-kyofusho (TKS), a subtype of social-anxiety disorder common in East Asia. The results showed that TKS was characterized by enhanced affective and reduced cognitive empathy. It also indicated that the whole-brain functional connectivity involved in cognitive empathy had decreased in the TKS group. These results suggest that TKS may be caused by an imbalance between affective and cognitive empathies.

This research was conducted using MRI scanner and related facilities of the Kokoro Research Center.

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Authors: Tei S, Kauppi J, Jankowski KF, Fujino J, Monti RP, Tohka J, Abe N, Murai T, Takahashi H, Hari R (2020)

Title: Brain and behavioral alterations in subjects with social anxiety dominated by empathic embarrassment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (8): 4385-4391

2020/04/22