Depressive disorders are often accompanied by severe and pervasive impairments in social
functioning, surpassing those experienced by individuals with other chronic medical …

The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

Depression is associated with social risk factors, social impairments and poor social
functioning. This paper gives an overview of these social aspects using the NIMH Research …

Background: Social cognition–the ability to identify, perceive, and interpret socially relevant
information–is an important skill that plays a significant role in successful interpersonal …

Background Depression is associated with problems in social functioning. Impaired
empathic abilities might underlie this association. Empathy is a multidimensional construct …

Although the processes that underlie sharing others' emotions (empathy) and understanding
others' mental states (mentalizing, Theory of Mind) have received increasing attention, it is …

Abstract The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task (RMET) is commonly used to assess
mentalizing, the capacity to make inferences about mental states. The RMET has been used …

Objective: A hypermentalizing impairment, or tendency to overattribute mental states to
others, has been identified among individuals with borderline personality disorder. However …

Background: This review integrates neuroimaging studies of 2 domains of social cognition—
emotion comprehension and theory of mind (ToM)—in patients with major depressive …

The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) response is an event-related potential (ERP)
component, which is automatically elicited by events that violate predictions based on prior …