Body language reading of emotion in schizophrenia: Associations with symptoms and functional outcome

Engelstad, Katharina Nymo; Andreassen, Ole A.; Vaskinn, Anja

doi:10.1111/sjop.12381

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“…Moreover, the methodological approach and data presented here may further promote investigation of the networks for body language reading, as well as their variability (3,5,101,102). Among other factors, gender, presence of neuropsychiatric conditions, and the body language content itself may affect the decoding of intentions and emotions from dynamic point-and full-light bodily stimuli (103)(104)(105)(106)(107)(108)(109). Previous data indicate the STS and IFG may be engaged in inferring emotion and personality traits from point-light BM (110,111).…”

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Structural and effective brain connectivity underlying biological motion detection

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Zeidman

Erb

et al. 2018

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The perception of actions underwrites a wide range of socio-cognitive functions. Previous neuroimaging and lesion studies identified several components of the brain network for visual biological motion (BM) processing, but interactions among these components and their relationship to behavior remain little understood. Here, using a recently developed integrative analysis of structural and effective connectivity derived from high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we assess the cerebro-cerebellar network for processing of camouflaged point-light BM. Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) informed by probabilistic tractography indicates that the right superior temporal sulcus (STS) serves as an integrator within the temporal module. However, the STS does not appear to be a "gatekeeper" in the functional integration of the occipito-temporal and frontal regions: The fusiform gyrus (FFG) and middle temporal cortex (MTC) are also connected to the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and insula, indicating multiple parallel pathways. BM-specific loops of effective connectivity are seen between the left lateral cerebellar lobule Crus I and right STS, as well as between the left Crus I and right insula. The prevalence of a structural pathway between the FFG and STS is associated with better BM detection. Moreover, a canonical variate analysis shows that the visual sensitivity to BM is best predicted by BM-specific effective connectivity from the FFG to STS and from the IFG, insula, and STS to the early visual cortex. Overall, the study characterizes the architecture of the cerebro-cerebellar network for BM processing and offers prospects for assessing the social brain.biological motion | dynamic causal modelling | diffusion tensor imaging | functional MRI | network analysis N onverbal social cognition (inferring the intentions and affective and mental states of others based on nonverbal information) predominates in our daily life (1-3). Understanding of bodily expressions represents a key element of social cognition (3-5). Perception of dynamic bodily signals is commonly assessed by point-light biological motion (BM; ref. 6), as it enables one to separate the effects of motion from other attributes such as body shape or facial expressions (Fig. 1). Innate tuning to body motion is seen across species (7,8). Studies using different imaging modalities, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography, electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetoencephalography, have unveiled components of the BM processing network. However, communication within this network remains little understood.The main foci of reported activation are the superior temporal sulcus (STS; refs. 9-19), fusiform gyrus (FFG;, middle temporal cortex (MTC; refs. 11 and 20), parietal regions (10,17,21,23), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG; refs. 14 and 24), bilateral insula (14, 25), and the left lateral cerebellum (26). More recently, by using whole-head ultra-high-field 9.4T fMRI and te...

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confidence: 76%

Structural and effective brain connectivity underlying biological motion detection

Sokolov

Zeidman

Erb

et al. 2018

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Gender specificity of the link between BM processing and visual social cognition may be of value for better understanding a wide range of psychiatric, neurologic, neurodevelopmental, and psychosomatic conditions. Some aspects of BM processing are atypical in ASD (e.g., Klin et al, 2009;Nackaerts et al, 2012;Jack et al, 2017), schizophrenia (e.g., Kim et al, 2011;Hastings et al, 2013;Spencer et al, 2013;Hashimoto et al, 2014;Vaskinn et al, 2016Vaskinn et al, , 2018Engelstad et al, 2017Engelstad et al, , 2018aOkruszek et al, 2018) and schizotypal personality disorder (Hur et al, 2016), bipolar disorders , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Kröger et al, 2014), anxiety disorders and in individuals with elevated anxiety (van de Cruys et al, 2013;Heenan and Troje, 2015), obsessive compulsive disorders (Kim et al, 2008), and unipolar depression (Loi et al, 2013;Kaletsch et al, 2014). Deficits are also reported in individuals who were born preterm and suffer congenital brain lesions ), Alzheimer's (Henry et al, 2012;Insch et al, 2015) and Parkinson's diseases (Cao et al, 2015;Jaywant et al, 2016a,b;Kloeters et al, 2017), epilepsy (Bala et al, 2018), and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia (Zucker et al, 2013;Lang et al, 2015;Dapelo et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In SZ, a positive correlation is reported between BM processing (detection of facing direction of masked walkers) and the empathy index (Matsumoto et al, 2015). Poorer emotion recognition is associated with impaired self-reported social functional capacity, community outcome (such as lifetime relationship status and independent living) and, in particular, in individuals who committed homicide, with a tendency to under-mentalize (Engelstad et al, 2017(Engelstad et al, , 2018aEgeland et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 98%

Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact

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We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring emotions through BM (body language reading) are firmly linked and examined whether this tie is gender-specific. Healthy females and males completed two tasks with the same set of point-light BM displays portraying angry and neutral locomotion of female and male actors. For one task, perceivers had to indicate actor gender, while for the other, they had to infer the emotional content of locomotion. Thus, with identical visual input, we directed task demands either to BM processing or inferring of emotion. This design allows straight comparison between sensitivity to BM and recognition of emotions conveyed by the same BM. In addition, perceivers were administered a set of photographs from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), with which they identified either emotional state or actor gender. Although there were no gender differences in performance on BM tasks, a tight link occurred between recognition accuracy of emotions and gender through BM in males. In females only, body language reading (both accuracy and response time) was associated with performance on the RMET. The outcome underscores gender-specific modes in visual social cognition and triggers investigation of body language reading in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders.

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“…Thus, while still impaired, this domain of social cognition differentiates SCZ from healthy controls to a lesser extent than does facial emotion identification ( d = 0.89; Kohler et al, 2010 ) or emotional prosody processing ( d = 1.24; Hoekert et al, 2007 ). Furthermore, links have been found between recognition of emotion from biological motion and higher-order social perception (Brittain et al, 2012 ), facial emotion identification and empathic accuracy (Olbert et al, 2013 ), and neurocognition and functional capacity (Engelstad et al, 2017 ).…”

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It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders

Okruszek

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Social neuroscience offers a wide range of techniques that may be applied to study the social cognitive deficits that may underlie reduced social functioning—a common feature across many psychiatric disorders. At the same time, a significant proportion of research in this area has been conducted using paradigms that utilize static displays of faces or eyes. The use of point-light displays (PLDs) offers a viable alternative for studying recognition of emotion or intention inference while minimizing the amount of information presented to participants. This mini-review aims to summarize studies that have used PLD to study emotion and intention processing in schizophrenia (SCZ), affective disorders, anxiety and personality disorders, eating disorders and neurodegenerative disorders. Two main conclusions can be drawn from the reviewed studies: first, the social cognitive problems found in most of the psychiatric samples using PLD were of smaller magnitude than those found in studies presenting social information using faces or voices. Second, even though the information presented in PLDs is extremely limited, presentation of these types of stimuli is sufficient to elicit the disorder-specific, social cognitive biases (e.g., mood-congruent bias in depression, increased threat perception in anxious individuals, aberrant body size perception in eating disorders) documented using other methodologies. Taken together, these findings suggest that point-light stimuli may be a useful method of studying social information processing in psychiatry. At the same time, some limitations of using this methodology are also outlined.

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Body language reading of emotion in schizophrenia: Associations with symptoms and functional outcome

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Structural and effective brain connectivity underlying biological motion detection

Structural and effective brain connectivity underlying biological motion detection

Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact

It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders

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