Neuroanatomical markers of social cognition in neglected adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Growing up in neglectful households can impact multiple aspects of social cognition. However, research on neglect's effects on social cognition processes and their neuroanatomical correlates during adolescence is scarce. Here, we aimed to comprehensively assess social cognition processes (recognition of basic and contextual emotions, theory of mind, the experience of envy and Schadenfreude and empathy for pain) and their structural brain correlates in adolescents with legal neglect records within family-based care. First, we compared neglected adolescents (n = 27) with control participants (n = 25) on context-sensitive social cognition tasks while controlling for physical and emotional abuse and executive and intellectual functioning. Additionally, we explored the grey

SUBMITTER: Trujillo-Llano C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11127280 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature