The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been implicated in a variety of social,
cognitive, and affective functions that are commonly disrupted in mental illness. In this …

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 …

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

Social cognition broadly refers to the processing of social information in the brain that
underlies abilities such as the detection of others' emotions and responding appropriately to …

Humans are highly social beings, yet people with social anhedonia experience reduced
interest in or reward from social situations. Social anhedonia is a key facet of schizotypal …

The topic of social cognition has attracted considerable interest in schizophrenia over the
last several years. This construct generally refers to the detection, processing, and utilization …

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 …

In many individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia social functioning is impaired across
the lifespan. Social cognition has emerged as one of the possible factors that may contribute …

BackgroundThe ability to understand others' mental states carries profound consequences
for mental and physical health, making efforts at validly and reliably assessing mental state …

During the past decade, novel approaches to study social interaction have expanded and
questioned long-standing knowledge about how humans understand each other. We aim to …