ReviewFrontiers in neurology2021
Where We Mentalize: Main Cortical Areas Involved in Mentalization.
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Abstract
When discussing "mentalization," we refer to a very special ability that only humans and few species of great apes possess: the ability to think about themselves and to represent in their mind their own mental state, attitudes, and beliefs and those of others. In this review, a summary of the main cortical areas involved in mentalization is presented. A thorough literature search using PubMed MEDLINE database was performed. The search terms "cognition," "metacognition," "mentalization," "direct electrical stimulation," "theory of mind," and their synonyms were combined with "prefrontal cortex," "temporo-parietal junction," "parietal cortex," "inferior frontal gyrus," "cingulate gyrus," and the names of other cortical areas to extract relevant published papers. Non-English publications were excluded. Data were extracted and analyzed in a qualitative manner. It is the authors' belief that knowledge of the neural substrate of metacognition is essential not only for the "neuroscientist" but also for the "practical neuroscientist" (i.e., the neurosurgeon), in order to better understand the pathophysiology of mentalizing dysfunctions in brain pathologies, especially those in which integrity of cortical areas or white matter connectivity is compromised. Furthermore, in the context of neuro-oncological surgery, understanding the anatomical structures involved in the theory of mind can help the neurosurgeon obtain a wider and safer resection. Though beyond of the scope of this paper, an important but unresolved issue concerns the long-range white matter connections that unify these cortical areas and that may be themselves involved in neural information processing.
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