About this Research Topic
Engagement in meaningful social relationships can promote brain and psychological health. Prosocial behaviors are those directed to optimize others’ or societal conditions, like kindness and collaborative interactions. At the same time, they benefit the person who engages in prosocial behaviors, with differential neurotransmitter modulation and increased cognitive and emotional regulation skills. Prosocial habits should strengthen social connectedness, increasing sense of belongingness. Neuropsychological benefits of this social approach in everyday life ought to be investigated, especially among those clinically affected by social adverse factors, like drug or violence exposition, expanding transformative psychological resources towards brain health and emotional regulation.
Lack of social support or parental supervision has been identified as a vulnerability marker for many psychological disorders associated with intentional or inadvertent exposure to adverse factors, like alcohol use disorders and psychological violence. Thus, family attachment styles and previous relevant social linkages seem to be orienting parameters to the delivery, protective, and reciprocal psychological mechanisms involved in further peer interactions, influencing future social connectedness. However, family attachment styles can be associated with dysfunctional patterns of decision-making, problem-solving, or emotional regulation, for example.
Recent advances have shown limitations in emotional regulation as a vulnerability marker for alcohol use disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, with differential brain connectivity. Thus, improving one’s social implication through prosocial behaviors might update their social bonding mechanism. At the same time, it might foster an update in one’s brain circuit activation with differential emotional expression, promoting transformative social interactions.
Putting together these analyses, the articles collected in this Research Topic ought to contribute to elucidating the social connectedness features that are protectors for brain health and emotional regulation. Looking ahead, this collection will also explore expert interventions and AI-driven solutions to enhance social connectedness. In this context, research on predictive modeling for emotional and social outcomes, natural language processing (NLP) for analyzing social interactions, neuroimaging and brain health predictions, and social network analysis would be highly valuable contributions to this special issue.
Contributors should address the following research questions:
- What brings relevance to social interaction and is crucial for connectedness and belongingness? How does this social feature interact with brain activation and/or emotional regulation?
- What motivates prosocial behavior, like kindness or collaborative interaction? How does prosocial behavior interact with brain activation and/or emotional regulation?
- Can openness and engagement towards social interaction promote differential brain activation and cognitive or emotional regulation?
- What are the brain and emotional regulation features of transformative social interactions?
- Does attachment style contribute to achieving fair, respectful, and caring social interaction in different acquaintance contexts? What are their brain and emotional differential characteristics?
- How can clinical and preclinical populations have neuropsychological benefits from interventions based on prosocial behavior and/or social connectedness?
- What are the neurodevelopmental features of prosocial behavior?
- How can artificial neural networks explain prosocial behavior and/or social connectedness?
- How can models be trained to predict the likelihood of individuals developing emotional regulation issues based on their social connectedness or attachment styles?
- How can AI be used to detect prosocial vs. antisocial communication styles in online interactions or therapy sessions?
- How can AI be explored to detect changes in brain connectivity in individuals who regularly engage in prosocial activities, assessing how these behaviors contribute to emotional regulation?
- How can AI be explored to analyze the diversity of social networks in order to identify which structures best support emotional well-being and protect against psychological disorders?
Contributors should send the following article types: Original Research, Systematic Reviews, Perspective, Brief Research Report, or Opinion.
Lack of social support or parental supervision has been identified as a vulnerability marker for many psychological disorders associated with intentional or inadvertent exposure to adverse factors, like alcohol use disorders and psychological violence. Thus, family attachment styles and previous relevant social linkages seem to be orienting parameters to the delivery, protective, and reciprocal psychological mechanisms involved in further peer interactions, influencing future social connectedness. However, family attachment styles can be associated with dysfunctional patterns of decision-making, problem-solving, or emotional regulation, for example.
Recent advances have shown limitations in emotional regulation as a vulnerability marker for alcohol use disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, with differential brain connectivity. Thus, improving one’s social implication through prosocial behaviors might update their social bonding mechanism. At the same time, it might foster an update in one’s brain circuit activation with differential emotional expression, promoting transformative social interactions.
Putting together these analyses, the articles collected in this Research Topic ought to contribute to elucidating the social connectedness features that are protectors for brain health and emotional regulation. Looking ahead, this collection will also explore expert interventions and AI-driven solutions to enhance social connectedness. In this context, research on predictive modeling for emotional and social outcomes, natural language processing (NLP) for analyzing social interactions, neuroimaging and brain health predictions, and social network analysis would be highly valuable contributions to this special issue.
Contributors should address the following research questions:
- What brings relevance to social interaction and is crucial for connectedness and belongingness? How does this social feature interact with brain activation and/or emotional regulation?
- What motivates prosocial behavior, like kindness or collaborative interaction? How does prosocial behavior interact with brain activation and/or emotional regulation?
- Can openness and engagement towards social interaction promote differential brain activation and cognitive or emotional regulation?
- What are the brain and emotional regulation features of transformative social interactions?
- Does attachment style contribute to achieving fair, respectful, and caring social interaction in different acquaintance contexts? What are their brain and emotional differential characteristics?
- How can clinical and preclinical populations have neuropsychological benefits from interventions based on prosocial behavior and/or social connectedness?
- What are the neurodevelopmental features of prosocial behavior?
- How can artificial neural networks explain prosocial behavior and/or social connectedness?
- How can models be trained to predict the likelihood of individuals developing emotional regulation issues based on their social connectedness or attachment styles?
- How can AI be used to detect prosocial vs. antisocial communication styles in online interactions or therapy sessions?
- How can AI be explored to detect changes in brain connectivity in individuals who regularly engage in prosocial activities, assessing how these behaviors contribute to emotional regulation?
- How can AI be explored to analyze the diversity of social networks in order to identify which structures best support emotional well-being and protect against psychological disorders?
Contributors should send the following article types: Original Research, Systematic Reviews, Perspective, Brief Research Report, or Opinion.
Keywords: Prosocial behavior, social connectedness, brain health, emotional regulation, alcohol use disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological violence
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