Psychiatry & Psychology | By September 24, 2008 | By Jared Tanner, MScloseJared Tanner, MS Name: Jared Tanner
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About: Mr. Tanner has an MS degree in psychology and is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology. As a clinical psychologist in training, his interests are mainly in abnormal human behavior. With an emphasis in neuropsychology, he is interested in normal and abnormal brain structure and functioning. At the most basic level, neuropsychologists are interested in understanding the relationships between the brain and behavior. | 4 Comments

Reduced Empathy Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Empathy is the ability and quality that allows humans to feel and understand what others are experiencing. It literally means “with [em-] suffering [-pathos]” as in suffering along with someone else. Empathy is not just emotionally suffering; it is also cognitively understanding what another person is going through; walking in their shoes, per se. Empathy connects people with each other and helps bind societies together.

In one recent study in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society the authors found that 31% of normal adults exhibited low emotional empathy scores on the Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale (BEES). Read more →