The emotional cost of caring: amygdala lesions reduce the aversiveness of affective empathy.

Zhao, Sijia · Brain · 2026

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This scientific commentary refers to ‘Empathy motivation is preserved following amygdala damage’ by Scheffer <i>et al</i>. (https://doi.org/10/1093/brain/awag074).