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September 10, 2025Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Dispositional and situational empathy in Parkinson's disease and their relationship with cognition

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LALaura Alonso‐RecioLMLisandra MendozaAPA. B. Rodríguez Pérez

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Overview

Observational analysis shows impaired situational empathy in cognitively impaired Parkinson's patients, suggesting its link to cognition.

Key Points

  • Cognitively impaired PD patients demonstrated poorer situational empathy than healthy controls and cognitively preserved patients.
  • No significant correlation was found between dispositional empathy and situational empathy in Parkinson's disease patients.
  • This assessment involved 31 cognitively preserved and 39 cognitively impaired PD patients, alongside 33 healthy controls.
  • Findings support the notion that situational empathy is sensitive to cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease.

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Alonso‐Recio et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c189d99b7b07f3a06137echttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1654067
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