The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in cognition, ageing and dementia

DD Jobson, Y Hase, AN Clarkson… - Brain …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Humans require a plethora of higher cognitive skills to perform executive functions, such as
reasoning, planning, language and social interactions, which are regulated predominantly …

Cognitive and affective perspective-taking: evidence for shared and dissociable anatomical substrates

ML Healey, M Grossman - Frontiers in neurology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Perspective-taking refers to the ability to recognize another person's point of view. Crucial to
the development of interpersonal relationships and prosocial behavior, perspective-taking is …

[HTML][HTML] Resting-state connectivity in neurodegenerative disorders: Is there potential for an imaging biomarker?

C Hohenfeld, CJ Werner, K Reetz - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Biomarkers in whichever modality are tremendously important in diagnosing of disease,
tracking disease progression and clinical trials. This applies in particular for disorders with a …

Social cognition through the lens of cognitive and clinical neuroscience

M Arioli, C Crespi, N Canessa - BioMed research international, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision‐making,
underlying the ability to decode others' intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with …

Impact of aging on empathy: Review of psychological and neural mechanisms

JN Beadle, CE de la Vega - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Empathy in aging is a key capacity because it affects the quality of older adults' relationships
and reduced levels are associated with greater loneliness. Many older adults also find …

Social cognition dysfunctions in neurodegenerative diseases: neuroanatomical correlates and clinical implications

F Christidi, R Migliaccio… - Behavioural …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social cognitive function, involved in the perception, processing, and interpretation of social
information, has been shown to be crucial for successful communication and interpersonal …

Uncovering the neural bases of cognitive and affective empathy deficits in Alzheimer's disease and the behavioral-variant of frontotemporal dementia

N Dermody, S Wong, R Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Loss of empathy is a core presenting feature of the behavioral-variant of frontotemporal
dementia (bvFTD), resulting in socioemotional difficulties and behavioral transgressions. In …

Distinct network topology in Alzheimer's disease and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

ASL Ng, J Wang, KK Ng, JSX Chong, X Qian… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2021 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
(bvFTD) cause distinct atrophy and functional disruptions within two major intrinsic brain …

Harmonizing neuropsychological assessment for mild neurocognitive disorders in Europe

M Boccardi, AU Monsch, C Ferrari… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Harmonized neuropsychological assessment for neurocognitive disorders, an
international priority for valid and reliable diagnostic procedures, has been achieved only in …

Brain networks supporting social cognition in dementia

KP Rankin - Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review examines the literature during the past 5 years
(2015–2020) as it describes the contribution of three key intrinsically connected networks …