Affective Empathy

On the topic of empathy and its role in the development and remittance of substance use disorders

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits in adolescents are a dimensional construct involving a symptom subset of empathy impairments amongst …

This study sought to understand how socio-affective functioning may account for the association between the brain and adolescent depression symptoms. We tested this by examining cognitive and affective empathy as indirect effects between brain network connectivity and heterogenous depression symptoms in adolescents.

To understand adolescent brains association with empathy, we examined network level functional connections in adolescent brains that associate with cognitive and affective empathy.

We used growth curve modeling to examine the impact of empathy’s trajectory on the trajectory of substance use in a sample of adolescents in substance use treatment.

We used growth curve modeling to examine the impact of empathy’s trajectory on the trajectory of substance use in a sample of adolescents in substance use treatment.

Citation: Winters, D. E. (2020). Social Cognitive and Affective Neural Substrates of Adolescent Transdiagnosic Symptoms. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.