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A physiological cause to empathy deficits in a mouse model of FTD
1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
Neuron
|March 16, 2023
Abstract
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Loss of empathy is a core behavioral symptom of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In this issue of Neuron, a study by Phillips et al.1 reveals that hypoactivity of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex is causally linked to empathy deficits in a mouse model of FTD.

