Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

Social relationships promote health and wellbeing. Brain regions regulating social behavior
continue to develop throughout adolescence, as teens learn to navigate their social …

In the embryonic and adult brain, neural stem cells proliferate and give rise to neurons and
glia through highly regulated processes. Epigenetic mechanisms—including DNA and …

The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before,
from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many …

This paper presents a novel neurobiological model of theory of mind (ToM) that incorporates
both neuroanatomical and neurochemical levels of specificity. Within this model, cortical and …

Despite significant advances in the field of social neuroscience, much remains to be
understood regarding the development and maintenance of social skills across the life span …

The realization that the microbiota–gut–brain axis plays a critical role in health and disease
has emerged over the past decade. The brain–gut axis is a bidirectional communication …

This response defends the view that human metacognition results from us turning our
mindreading capacities upon ourselves, and that our access to our own propositional …

Cognitive impairments are currently regarded as important determinants of functional
domains and are promising treatment goals in schizophrenia. Nevertheless, the exact nature …

Empathy allows individuals to share the affective states of others, predict others' actions, and
stimulate prosocial behavior. Whilst the proximate mechanisms of empathy, modulated in …