Associated functional network connectivity between callous-unemotionality and cognitive and affective empathy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low empathy is one component of affective impairments defining the antisocial youth phenotype callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Research suggests CU traits may be negatively associated with neural networks that are positively associated with cognitive and affective empathy - specifically the default mode (DMN), frontoparietal (FPN), and salience (SAL) networks. Determining which functional network connections are shared between CU traits and empathy could elucidate the extent to which CU traits shares neural substrates with cognitive versus affective empathy. The present study tested whether CU traits and both cognitive and affective empathy share network connections within and between the DMN, FPN, and SAL.

Methods

Participants (n = 112, aged 13-17, 43 % female) c

SUBMITTER: Winters DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10039983 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature