Background In recent years, an increasing number of studies documented potential links
between gaming disorders (GD; including “digital-gaming” or “video-gaming”) and Autism …

Background Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) show an impairment in the recognition and
expression of emotions, as well as an increased sensitivity to being socially excluded, and …

Characterizing the nature of developmental change is critical to understanding the
mechanisms that are impaired in complex neurodevelopment disorders such as autism …

Background Children exposed to maltreatment show neural sensitivity to facial cues
signalling threat. However, little is known about how maltreatment influences the processing …

People have a fundamental need to belong with others. Social exclusion impairs this need
and has various effects on cognition, affect, and the behavior of excluded individuals. We …

The autism diagnosis requires deficits in social interaction and communication, yet neither
occurs in isolation. This brief literature-based analysis provides evidence that other factors …

Disrupted empathic processing is a core feature of psychopathy. Neuroimaging data have
suggested that individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits show atypical responses to …

Over 70 years since the first description of the disease, disrupted social behavior remains a
core clinical feature of autistic spectrum disorder. The complex etiology of the disorder …

Relational bullying in schools is one of the most frequent forms of violence and can have
severe negative health impact, eg depression. Social exclusion is the most prominent form …

Previous studies on social anxiety have demonstrated negative-expectancy bias in social
contexts. In this study, we used a paradigm that employed self-relevant positive or negative …