Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of
Psychopathology (HiTOP) represent major dimensional frameworks proposing two …

Despite significant advances in the field of social neuroscience, much remains to be
understood regarding the development and maintenance of social skills across the life span …

There is now substantial evidence for Theory of mind (ToM) impairment in schizophrenia.
Despite this, we know little about how dynamic (state) variables and broad clinical, cognitive …

At least 10–15% of the general population regularly experience paranoid thoughts and
persecutory delusions are a frequent symptom of psychosis. Persecutory ideation is a key …

BackgroundMentalising impairment (an impaired ability to think about people in terms of
their mental states) has frequently been associated with schizophrenia. AimsTo assess the …

The purpose of this column is to provide an overview of social cognition in schizophrenia.
The column begins with a short introduction to social cognition. Then, we describe the …

Autistic-spectrum conditions and psychotic-spectrum conditions (mainly schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, and major depression) represent two major suites of disorders of human …

Towards the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found.
It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be …

Mentalizing has been examined both in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia
(SCZ) primarily by either cognitive-linguistic (referred to as verbal) or emotion recognition …

In this review article, we outline the evidence linking attachment adversity to psychosis, from
the premorbid stages of the disorder to its clinical forms. To better understand the …