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BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) patients show theory of mind (ToM) deficit since the early stages of the disease, and this deficit has been associated with working memory, executive functions and quality of life impairment. To date, neuroanatomical correlates of ToM have not been assessed with magnetic resonance imaging in PD. The main objective of this study was to assess cerebral correlat...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.4 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.1 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.1 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.7 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

II. BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 A. Ms. Schiavo’s Illness and Incapacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 B. Medical Malpractice Suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 C. The Litigation: Regarding the Guardianship of Theresa Marie Schiavo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Tasks assessing theory of mind (ToM) and non-mental state control tasks were administered to young and older adults to examine previous contradictory findings about age differences in mental state decoding. Age differences were found on a verbal ToM task after controlling for vocabulary levels. Older adults achieved significantly lower scores than did younger adults on static and dynamic visual...

Understanding others' mental states is a crucial skill that enables the complex social relationships that characterize human societies. Yet little research has investigated what fosters this skill, which is known as Theory of Mind (ToM), in adults. We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cogni...

We previously reported finding that performance was impaired on four out of five theory of mind (ToM) tests in a group of 21 individuals diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia (pScz), relative to a non-clinical group of 29 individuals (Scherzer et al., 2012). Only the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test did not distinguish between groups. A principal components analysis revealed that the results o...