The Empathy Circuit
How a tiny circuit in our brain can save the world. Why it can be so hard to walk in someone else’s shoes - literally, sometimes! A short exercise to build up your empathy circuit. How empathy can bring us all together to solve the world’s problems.
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Additional Resources
The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, by Frans de Waal
Born To Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, by Dacher Keltner
Our Experts
Bruce Miller, MD
Bruce Miller holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at UCSF, where he directs the Memory and Aging Center. He is a behavioral neurologist whose work in neurodegenerative conditions emphasizes brain-behavior relationships and the genetic and molecular underpinnings of disease. He is the principal investigator of the NIH-sponsored Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and program project on frontotemporal dementia. Additionally, he helps lead the Tau Consortium, the Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia, and the Global Brain Health Institute. He was awarded the Potamkin Award from the American Academy of Neurology and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Virginia Sturm, PhD
Virginia Sturm is an Associate Professor at UCSF in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry. Dr. Sturm is the director of the Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. After undergraduate work at Georgetown University, she received her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. Her research focuses on identifying the neural systems that support emotion and social behavior in neurodegenerative disease and neurodevelopmental disorders.