An Investigation of Moral Judgement in Frontotemporal Dementia

2005363 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Mario F. Mendez · University of California, Los Angeles

Jill Shapira · University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

These findings are consistent with an attenuation of the automatic emotional identification with others that is part of the innate moral sense. Such a disturbance may result from neurodegenerative disease affecting the ventromedial frontal cortex.

Topics & Keywords

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Mental Health and Psychiatry Ethics in medical practice

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced inequalities

Publication Details

Published in: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volume 18, Issue 4, pp. 193-197

DOI: 10.1097/01.wnn.0000191292.17964.bb

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