Inability to empathize: brain lesions that disrupt sharing and understanding another's emotions.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Brain : a journal of neurology

• Publication date

  2014-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1093/brain/awt317PMID 24293265PMCID PMC3959550
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