{"id":212206,"date":"2025-04-23T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/empathy-might-be-retained-in-alzheimers-disease-finds-a-new-study"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:16:37","slug":"empathy-might-be-retained-in-alzheimers-disease-finds-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/empathy-might-be-retained-in-alzheimers-disease-finds-a-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Empathy might be retained in Alzheimer\u2019s disease, finds a new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/empathy-might-be-retained-in-alzheimers-disease-finds-a-new-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with Alzheimer\u2019s disease may retain their ability to empathize, despite declines in other social abilities, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease scored slightly higher on a measure of empathy than peers of the same age with mild cognitive impairment, despite scoring worse on other measures of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/social+cognition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">social cognition<\/a> such as recognizing facial emotions and understanding the thoughts of others.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.70076\" target=\"_blank\">Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia<\/a>, say this may be the first time a cognitive domain has been found to improve in dementia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with Alzheimer\u2019s disease may retain their ability to empathize, despite declines in other social abilities, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. The researchers found that people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease scored slightly higher on a measure of empathy than peers of the same age with mild cognitive impairment, despite scoring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}