Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Mentalizing, the ability to attribute mental states to others and oneself, is a cognitive function with high relevance for social interactions. Recent neuroscientific research has increasingly contributed to attempts to decompose this complex social cognitive function into constituting neurocognitiv...

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Main Authors:	Schuwerk, Tobias, Langguth, Berthold, Sommer, Monika
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235411/

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spelling	pubmed-42354112014-12-04 Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation Schuwerk, Tobias Langguth, Berthold Sommer, Monika Psychology Mentalizing, the ability to attribute mental states to others and oneself, is a cognitive function with high relevance for social interactions. Recent neuroscientific research has increasingly contributed to attempts to decompose this complex social cognitive function into constituting neurocognitive building blocks. Additionally, clinical research that focuses on social cognition to find links between impaired social functioning and neurophysiological deviations has accumulated evidence that mentalizing is affected in most psychiatric disorders. Recently, both lines of research have started to employ transcranial magnetic stimulation: the first to modulate mentalizing in order to specify its neurocognitive components, the latter to treat impaired mentalizing in clinical conditions. This review integrates findings of these two different approaches to draw a more detailed picture of the neurocognitive basis of mentalizing and its deviations in psychiatric disorders. Moreover, we evaluate the effectiveness of hitherto employed stimulation techniques and protocols, paradigms and outcome measures. Based on this overview we highlight new directions for future research on the neurocognitive basis of functional and dysfunctional social cognition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4235411/ /pubmed/25477838 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01309 Text en Copyright © 2014 Schuwerk, Langguth and Sommer. http://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) or licensor 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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author	Schuwerk, Tobias Langguth, Berthold Sommer, Monika
spellingShingle	Schuwerk, Tobias Langguth, Berthold Sommer, Monika Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
author_facet	Schuwerk, Tobias Langguth, Berthold Sommer, Monika
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title	Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
title_short	Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
title_full	Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
title_fullStr	Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
title_full_unstemmed	Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
title_sort	modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation
description	Mentalizing, the ability to attribute mental states to others and oneself, is a cognitive function with high relevance for social interactions. Recent neuroscientific research has increasingly contributed to attempts to decompose this complex social cognitive function into constituting neurocognitive building blocks. Additionally, clinical research that focuses on social cognition to find links between impaired social functioning and neurophysiological deviations has accumulated evidence that mentalizing is affected in most psychiatric disorders. Recently, both lines of research have started to employ transcranial magnetic stimulation: the first to modulate mentalizing in order to specify its neurocognitive components, the latter to treat impaired mentalizing in clinical conditions. This review integrates findings of these two different approaches to draw a more detailed picture of the neurocognitive basis of mentalizing and its deviations in psychiatric disorders. Moreover, we evaluate the effectiveness of hitherto employed stimulation techniques and protocols, paradigms and outcome measures. Based on this overview we highlight new directions for future research on the neurocognitive basis of functional and dysfunctional social cognition.
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235411/
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Modulating functional and dysfunctional mentalizing by transcranial magnetic stimulation

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