María del Carmen Tejada

When the body resonates with the pain of the other: Empathy Bodyssence in Parkinson's disease.

Neuroscience of Consciousness 2026 María del Carmen Tejada, Antonia Zepeda, Alejandro Troncoso et al.

Empathy plays a fundamental role in social bonding and intersubjective understanding. While recent research has emphasized how bodily processes shape empathic engagement and underlie individual differences, the impact of bodily disruptions on empathic experience in Parkinson's disease (PD) remains largely unexplored. In this study, we used a neurophenomenological approach to investigate Empathy...