Social Brain Concept as a Basis for Social Cognition and Its Deficits in Mental Disorders. Part II. 'Social Brain': Structural Components and Connections with Psychopathology

The paper provides a review of the studies which describe the structural components of the social brain and their connections with mental disorders. The authors emphasise the 'brain localism' trend in the Western science, that is, its tendency to localise the causes of psychopathology in the dysfunctions of the social brain. This tendency is analysed in the paper both from the cultural-historical perspective and from the point of view of modern biopsychosocial models.