Chapter 4.Neurobiology
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If mentalizing required understanding the neurocognitive basis of this activity, none of us would have learned to do it. Yet we clinicians have ample reason to become familiar with the general direction of neurobiological research on mentalizing. First, neuroscience is putting some steel reinforcement in the scientific foundation of the developmental research we reviewed in the last chapter. Second, we have delineated both heterogeneity and unity in the concept of mentalizing, and neurobiological research is putting our conceptualization to the test; the brain, through its responses to our neuroimaging probes, can inform our ways of mentalizing it. Third, appreciating how neurobiological deficits contribute to impaired mentalizing can point our attention to strategies for clinical intervention. Finally, the neurocognitive perspective underscores the potential therapeutic value of psychopharmacological treatment in tandem with psychosocial interventions.
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