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Theory of mind, emotion recognition and social perception in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: Findings from the NAPLS-2 cohort
- Source :
- Schizophrenia research. Cognition, vol 2, iss 3, Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 133-139 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- Social cognition, the mental operations that underlie social interactions, is a major construct to investigate in schizophrenia. Impairments in social cognition are present before the onset of psychosis, and even in unaffected first-degree relatives, suggesting that social cognition may be a trait marker of the illness.In a large cohort of individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) and healthy controls, three domains of social cognition (theory of mind, facial emotion recognition and social perception) were assessed to clarify which domains are impaired in this population.Six-hundred and seventy-five CHR individuals and 264 controls, who were part of the multi-site North American Prodromal Longitudinal Study, completed The Awareness of Social Inference Test, the Penn Emotion Recognition task, the Penn Emotion Differentiation task, and the Relationship Across Domains, measures of theory of mind, facial emotion recognition, and social perception, respectively.Social cognition was not related to positive and negative symptom severity, but was associated with age and IQ. CHR individuals demonstrated poorer performance on all measures of social cognition. However, after controlling for age and IQ, the group differences remained significant for measures of theory of mind and social perception, but not for facial emotion recognition.Theory of mind and social perception are impaired in individuals at CHR for psychosis. Age and IQ seem to play an important role in the arising of deficits in facial affect recognition. Future studies should examine the stability of social cognition deficits over time and their role, if any, in the development of psychosis.
- Subjects :
- Psychosis
Longitudinal study
1.2 Psychological and socioeconomic processes
Cognitive Neuroscience
Population
clinical high risk
social cognition
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
lcsh:RC346-429
Article
Developmental psychology
Underpinning research
Clinical Research
Social cognition
Theory of mind
Behavioral and Social Science
medicine
psychosis
education
lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
education.field_of_study
Social perception
Prevention
Neurosciences
Clinical high risk
Serious Mental Illness
medicine.disease
Brain Disorders
schizophrenia
Psychiatry and Mental health
Good Health and Well Being
Mental Health
Schizophrenia
Cognitive Sciences
Construct (philosophy)
Psychology
Mind and Body
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22150013
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c48379ea9d5b3af87e91f669d50e492e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scog.2015.04.004