Sex-Differential Neural Circuits and Behavioral Responses for Empathy

Jingkai Fan^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry of the Second Affiliated Hospital and School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
² Nanhu Brain-computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou, 311100, China.
³ Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 200031, China.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry of the Second Affiliated Hospital and School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁵ Nanhu Brain-computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou, 311100, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁶ Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311121, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁷ NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁸ Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 200031, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.

Jingkai Fan et al. Neurosci Bull. 2025 Jan.

. 2025 Jan;41(1):192-194.

doi: 10.1007/s12264-024-01303-1. Epub 2024 Oct 12.

Jingkai Fan^{1

2}, Xinrong Wang^{1

3}, Han Xu^{4

5

6

7

8}

¹ Department of Psychiatry of the Second Affiliated Hospital and School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
² Nanhu Brain-computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou, 311100, China.
³ Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 200031, China.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry of the Second Affiliated Hospital and School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁵ Nanhu Brain-computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou, 311100, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁶ Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311121, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁷ NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.
⁸ Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 200031, China. xuhan2014@zju.edu.cn.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: The author declares no competing interest.

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