Apathy has specific cognitive and neurological bases in the brain
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Apathy has well-defined cognitive and neurological bases, consistently linked across neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions to disruptions in frontostriatal circuits, reward-processing brain regions, and specific decision-making parameters.
Evidence for · 5
Apathy, effort-based decisions and brain integrity in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
2026 · cited by 2
Paper 2 demonstrates that apathy is associated with specific alterations in effort-based decision-making parameters and underlying frontostriatal brain integrity across neurodegenerative conditions.
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Apathy
2021 · cited by 2
Paper 4 outlines how specific lesions across prefrontal cortex-basal ganglia circuits and neurotransmitter systems correspond to different underlying mechanisms of apathy.
Understanding apathy: behavioral and neural correlates of apathy in neurodegenerative disorders
2024 · cited by 1
Paper 8 finds that apathy correlates with reduced grey matter volume in specific reward-related brain regions such as the ventral striatum and anterior cingulate cortex.
Network localization of functional and structural correlates of apathy in Parkinson's disease.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper 10 uses network mapping to show that structural and functional correlates of apathy converge on distributed brain networks like the ventral attention and frontoparietal networks.
Cognitive and behavioral disturbances in PSP and MSA: clinical features and imaging correlates.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper 11 reports that apathy is a frequent behavioral symptom in neurodegenerative disorders linked specifically to medial prefrontal and subcortical atrophy.