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Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options

Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders, affecting millions of people around the globe. In recent years, researchers increasingly investigated social cognition in depression and discovered pronounced alterations. A special focus has been put on mentalising or Theory of Mind, the...

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Autores principales: Langenbach, Benedikt P., Koelkebeck, Katja, Knoch, Daria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10308027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398589
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1116306
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description Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders, affecting millions of people around the globe. In recent years, researchers increasingly investigated social cognition in depression and discovered pronounced alterations. A special focus has been put on mentalising or Theory of Mind, the ability to recognize and understand another person’s thoughts and feelings. While there is behavioral evidence for deficits in this ability in patients with depression as well as specialized therapeutic interventions, the neuroscientific substrates are only beginning to be understood. In this mini-review, we take a social neuroscience perspective to analyse the importance of altered mentalising in depression and whether it can help to understand the origins and perpetuation of the disorder. We will put a special focus on treatment options and corresponding neural changes to identify relevant paths for future (neuroscientific) research.
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spelling pubmed-103080272023-06-30 Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options Langenbach, Benedikt P. Koelkebeck, Katja Knoch, Daria Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders, affecting millions of people around the globe. In recent years, researchers increasingly investigated social cognition in depression and discovered pronounced alterations. A special focus has been put on mentalising or Theory of Mind, the ability to recognize and understand another person’s thoughts and feelings. While there is behavioral evidence for deficits in this ability in patients with depression as well as specialized therapeutic interventions, the neuroscientific substrates are only beginning to be understood. In this mini-review, we take a social neuroscience perspective to analyse the importance of altered mentalising in depression and whether it can help to understand the origins and perpetuation of the disorder. We will put a special focus on treatment options and corresponding neural changes to identify relevant paths for future (neuroscientific) research. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10308027/ /pubmed/37398589 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1116306 Text en Copyright © 2023 Langenbach, Koelkebeck and Knoch. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
title Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
title_full Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
title_fullStr Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
title_full_unstemmed Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
title_short Mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
title_sort mentalising and depression: a mini-review on behavior, neural substrates, and treatment options
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10308027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398589
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