"Empathy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D004645
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.752.355 F01.752.543.500.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Empathy" by people in Profiles.
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Perceptions of Caring Recruitment Among Older Adults: African Americans and Non-Latinx Whites. Nurs Res. 2023 Mar-Apr 01; 72(2):114-122.
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Empathic communication in dignity therapy: Feasibility of measurement and descriptive findings. Palliat Support Care. 2022 06; 20(3):321-327.
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The Communal Coping Model of Pain Catastrophizing in Daily Life: A Within-Couples Daily Diary Study. J Pain. 2015 Nov; 16(11):1163-75.
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Negative social interactions and risk of mild cognitive impairment in old age. Neuropsychology. 2015 Jul; 29(4):561-70.
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Preparing prelicensure and graduate nursing students to systematically communicate bad news to patients and families. J Nurs Educ. 2014 Jan 01; 53(1):52-5.
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Theory of mind skills are related to gray matter volume in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Dec 15; 70(12):1169-78.
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Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy. Brain Res. 2010 Jan 13; 1308:100-13.
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Mentalizing about emotion and its relationship to empathy. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2008 Sep; 3(3):204-17.
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Engaging students and faculty with diverse first-person experiences: use of an interpretive research group. J Nurs Educ. 2007 12; 46(12):572-5.
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Teaching reproductive options through the use of fiction: the Cider House Rules project. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2007 Sep-Oct; 36(5):464-70.