Mentalizing involves the ability to predict someone else's behavior based on their belief
state. More advanced mentalizing skills involve integrating knowledge about beliefs with …

This chapter reviews the major approaches to measure empathy, considers their validity and
reliability, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Empathy is a …

Neuroimaging studies have identified the anterior paracingulate cortex (PCC) as the key
prefrontal region subserving theory of mind. We adopt an evolutionary perspective …

In the field of cognitive neuroscience, it is increasingly accepted that mentalizing is
subserved by a complex frontotemporoparietal cortical network. Some researchers consider …

To gain further insight into interpersonal dysfunction in Borderline Personality Disorder
(BPD) we investigated the effects of emotional cues and the fairness of a social partner on …

Both autism and schizophrenia feature deficits in aspects of social cognition that may be
related to amygdala dysfunction, but it is unclear whether these are similar or different …

Both schizophrenia (SCZ) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by
mentalizing problems and associated neural dysfunction of the social brain. However, the …

In this fMRI study, we investigated theory of mind (ToM) in patients with paranoid
schizophrenia. We hypothesized that the network supporting the representation of intentions …

Social cognition abilities are severely impaired in schizophrenia (SZ). The current meta-
analysis used foci of 21 individual studies on functional abnormalities in the schizophrenic …

BACKGROUND: Patients affected by schizophrenia show deficits in social cognition, with
abnormal performance on tasks targeting theory of mind (ToM) and empathy (Emp). Brain …