"I think; therefore I am": Loneliness and neurodevelopmental disorders

该项目旨在为患有神经发育障碍(NDDS)的青少年开发一个3D动画程序，以改变他们因日常社交困难(包括通过社交媒体)而产生的自动偏见，这些偏见导致负面思维模式和孤独。消极的思维模式可以说是情绪障碍发展的标志和原因，孤独会放大这种模式，患有NDDS的青少年经历的孤独程度要高得多。通过一个引人入胜的3D动画程序改变这些消极的思维模式提供了巨大的潜力，可以改善教育和社会情感结果，并在国内和国际上产生经济利益。

This project aims to develop a 3-D animated program for adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) that alters the automatic biases arising from their everyday social communication difficulties (including via social media), which result in negative thought patterns and loneliness. Negative thought patterns, which are arguably the hallmarks of, and causal in, the development of emotional dysfunction are amplified by loneliness, and adolescents with NDDs experience significantly greater levels of loneliness. Altering these negative thought patterns via an engaging 3-D animated program offers great potential to improve educational and social-emotional outcomes along with generating economic benefits nationally and internationally.