People with brain disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and dementia, are often misdiagnosed as having depression, when in fact what they’re experiencing is apathy. This can delay an accurate ...

From a neurophysiologic perspective, apathy can be the result of three different processes, each of which can produce a similar apathetic presentation: (1) one where emotion is not attached to action, ...

Apathy is considered a negative state to be avoided or overcome. In popular usage, apathy is defined as an absence of passion, emotion, or excitement, or a lack of interest or concern for things ...

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From the perspective of how brain function is organized, apathetic states can be understood as mostly following a circular pattern of information processing. That is precisely the basic tenet in ...