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  • Social-cognitive deficits are linked to brain anomalies in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders.
  • Quantitative behavioral analysis offers new insights into brain-behavior relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate brain-behavior links in social cognition within healthy young adults using a quantitative approach.
  • To identify specific brain structures and asymmetry patterns associated with social behavior and cognitive styles.

Main Methods:

  • Twenty-two healthy adults completed quantitative social cognition measures: Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), Empathizing Questionnaire (EQ), and Systemizing Questionnaire (SQ).
  • Structural 3-Tesla MRI provided volumetric and asymmetry indices for brain regions.
  • Statistical modeling (backward elimination) analyzed relationships between brain measures and social cognition scores.

Main Results:

  • Cortical, limbic, and striatal regions significantly predicted variance in social behavior and cognitive styles.
  • Deviations in caudate and amygdala asymmetry, and increased cortical gray matter asymmetry, correlated with higher SRS and Emotion Recognition scores.
  • Pallidum asymmetry predicted Interpersonal Relationships and Repetitive Mannerisms; caudate asymmetry deviation related to EQ-SQ scores (systemizing vs. empathizing).

Conclusions:

  • Brain structure asymmetry and volume variations in healthy individuals are associated with social cognition traits.
  • These findings extend understanding of brain-behavior links from clinical disorders to the general population.
  • Quantitative neuroimaging and behavioral analysis reveal nuanced relationships between brain structure and social-cognitive functioning.