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ReviewBrain sciences2023

A 20-Year Systematic Review of the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' Test across Neurodegenerative Conditions.

Owen Stafford, Christina Gleeson, Ciara Egan, Conall Tunney, Brendan Rooney, Fiadhnait O'Keeffe, Garret McDermott, Simon Baron-Cohen, Tom Burke

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Review in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Associations between pragmatic language and Theory of Mind in individuals with a history of autism and those who have lost the autism diagnosis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Owen StaffordSchool of Psychology, University College Dublin, D04 F6X4 Dublin, Ireland.
Christina GleesonSchool of Psychology, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
Ciara EganSchool of Psychology, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
Conall TunneyAcquired Brain Injury Ireland, Meath Services, Dublin, Ireland.
Brendan RooneySchool of Psychology, University College Dublin, D04 F6X4 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-9842-1492
Fiadhnait O'KeeffeSchool of Psychology, University College Dublin, D04 F6X4 Dublin, Ireland.
Garret McDermottDepartment of Psychology, Tallaght University Hospital, D24 NR0A Dublin, Ireland.
Simon Baron-CohenAutism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 8AH, UK.
Tom BurkeSchool of Psychology, University College Dublin, D04 F6X4 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-6563-1597
University College Dublin · IEOllscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway · IEAcquired Brain Injury Ireland · IETallaght University Hospital · IEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social cognition has a broad theoretical definition, which includes the ability to mentalise, i.e., recognise and infer mental states to explain and predict another's behaviour. There is growing recognition of the clinical, diagnostic, and prognostic value of assessing a person's ability to perform social cognitive tasks, particularly aspects of theory of mind, such as mentalising. One such measure of mentalising is the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test (RMET). This systematic review and meta-analysis consider performance on the RMET, applied to people with neurodegenerative conditions in matched control studies, since its publication in 2001. Overall, this review includes 22 papers with data from N = 800 participants with neurodegenerative conditions: Alzheimer's disease,

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s diseaseHuntington’s diseaseLewy body dementiamotor neuron diseasemultiple sclerosisneurodegenerative diseasesParkinson’s diseasesocial cognitionthe ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ test

Identifiers

PMID37759869
PMCPMC10526136
OpenAlexW4386332501

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Registered trials

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