The Role of Mentalizing in Psychiatric Disorders

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2021-2022

Course director

  • Dr. Róbert HEROLD

    associate professor,
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-MPB-h-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

ODA-MPS-T parallel

Course headcount limitations

min. 1 – max. 15

Topic

Mentalization is the ability to form a picture of what is going on in another person’s mind. This ability is essential for social interactions. In a significant proportion of psychiatric illnesses, this basic human skill does not function properly. The aim of the course is to systematically review the mentalization deficits in psychiatric disorders.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction. The role of social cognition - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 2. The basics of mentalizing - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 3. Developmental aspects in mentalization - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 4. Neurobiology and neurochemistry of mentalizing - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 5. Mentalizing in autism - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 6. Deficits in mentalizing in schizophrenia - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 7. Mentalizing alterations in bipolar disorder - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 8. Characteristics of mentalizing in borderline personality disorder - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 9. Characteristics of mentalizing in antisocial personality disorder - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 10. Deficits of mentalizing in neurological disorders (Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis Multiplex, traumatic brain injuries) - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 11. Treatment of mentalizing deficits - Dr. Herold Róbert
  • 12. Summary - Dr. Herold Róbert

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Abu-Akel, A., Shamay-Tsoory, S., 2011. Neuroanatomical and neurochemical bases of theory of mind. Neuropsychologia 49, 2971 2984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.012
Heyes, C.M., Frith, C.D., 2014. The cultural evolution of mind reading. Science 344, 1243091 1243091. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243091

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Maximum of 25 % absence allowed

Mid-term exams

According to the Code of Studies and Examinations

Making up for missed classes

According to the Code of Studies and Examinations

Exam topics/questions

None

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars