ReviewBrain sciences2021
Biological Bases of Empathy and Social Cognition in Patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Focus on Treatment with Psychostimulants.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neurofunctional Correlates of Emotional Dysregulation: Systematic Review and ALE Meta-Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
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- Social anxiety but not callous-unemotional traits predicts shame coping in conduct disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The "Measure of Empathy in Early Childhood": Psychometric Properties and Associations with Externalizing Problems and Callous Unemotional Traits.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- The Role of Pharmacotherapy in Social Cognition, Empathy, and Serum Oxytocin Levels in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Case-Control Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cumulative Dopaminergic Genetic Effects on Empathy Development in Emerging Adults.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Effects of psychedelic microdosing versus conventional ADHD medication use on emotion regulation, empathy, and ADHD symptoms in adults with severe ADHD symptoms: A naturalistic prospective comparison study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Psychostimulants and social behaviors.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Social Cognition and Prosocial Behavior in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Symptoms, Evaluation and Treatment.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Moderators and Other Predictors of Methylphenidate Response in Children and Adolescents with ADHD.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
In recent years, there has been growing interest in investigating the effect of specific pharmacological treatments for ADHD not only on its core symptoms, but also on social skills in youths. This stands especially true for ADHD patients displaying impulsive aggressiveness and antisocial behaviors, being the comorbidity with Disruptive Behavior Disorders, one of the most frequently observed in clinical settings. This systematic review aimed to synthesize research findings on this topic following PRISMA guidelines and to identify gaps in current knowledge, future directions, and treatment implications. Search strategies included the following terms: ADHD; methylphenidate and other ADHD drugs; empathy, theory of mind and emotion recognition. Full-text articles were retrieved and data from individual studies were collected. Thirteen studies were finally included in our systematic review. Ten studies assessing changes in empathy and/or theory of mind in patients with ADHD treated after pharmacological interventions were identified. Similarly, seven partially overlapping studies assessing changes in emotion recognition were retrieved. Despite a great heterogeneity in the methodological characteristics of the included studies, most of them reported an improvement in emphatic and theory of mind abilities in youths with ADHD treated with psychostimulants and nonstimulant drugs, as well as positive but less consistent results about emotion recognition performances.
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