Remediation of Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia: Functional Predictors, Generalizability, and Durability

Marsh, Pamela J.; Green, Melissa; Russell, Tamara; McGuire, Jonathan; Harris, Anthony; Coltheart, Max

doi:10.1080/15487761003757066

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“…Several studies have shown that it is possible to recover the ability to recognize emotions with well-defined strategies and structured training (Frommann et al, 2003;Silver et al, 2004;Wolwer et al, 2005;Russell et al, 2006;Combs et al, 2007a;Russell et al, 2008;Roberts and Penn, 2009;Marsh et al, 2010;Mazza et al, 2010;Roberts et al, 2010;Combs et al, 2011). In comprehensive training programs that address emotion perception as well as other dimensions, such as theory of mind and attributions, emotion recognition improvements are typically observed even when no changes are observed in other social cognition areas (Horan et al, 2009).…”

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“…Most of these treatment programs were designed to directly address deficits in social cognition (e.g., emotion recognition, theory of mind) using remediation methods, while debiasing approaches are rarely employed when the primary focus is social cognitive processes (e.g., Hogarty et al, 2004;Roncone et al, 2004;Silver et al, 2004;Wolwer et al, 2005;Choi and Kwon, 2006;Kayser et al, 2006;Russell et al, 2006;Marsh et al, 2010;Mazza et al, 2010). However, deficits and biases affecting social cognition occur together in schizophrenia, and thus potentiate each other.…”

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Metacognitive and social cognition training (MSCT) in schizophrenia: A preliminary efficacy study

Rocha

Queirós

2013

Schizophrenia Research

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A B S T R A C TPsychosocial interventions have proven to be effective in treating social cognition in people with psychotic disorders. The current study aimed to determine the effects of a metacognitive and social cognition training (MSCT) program, designed to both remediate deficits and correct biases in social cognition. Thirty-five clinically stable outpatients were recruited and assigned to the MSCT program (n = 19) for 10 weeks (18 sessions) or to the TAU group (n = 16), and they all completed pre-and post-treatment assessments of social cognition, cogni-tive biases, functioning and symptoms. The MSCT group demonstrated a significant improvement in theory of mind, social perception, emotion recognition and social functioning. Additionally, the tendency to jump to conclusions was significantly reduced among the MSCT group after training. There were no differential benefits regarding clinical symptoms except for one trend group effect for general psychopathology. The results support the efficacy of the MSCT format, but further development of the training program is required to increase the benefits related to attributional style. K e y w o r d s : Schizophrenia Social cognition Rehabilitation Cognitive bias Metacognition

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Metacognitive and social cognition training (MSCT) in schizophrenia: A preliminary efficacy study

Rocha

Queirós

2013

Schizophrenia Research

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“…We chose these domains because in our previous work we have found associations between working memory and improved social cognition following ERT [7, 8]. Problem solving abilities are also essential skills for adapting to change in the environment and might affect the ability to benefit from treatment; likewise, speed of processing, important for staying on task, is associated with a range of social outcomes [25].…”

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“…Treatments for social cognitive impairments in schizophrenia tend to be dichotomised into ‘targeted’ treatments focusing on specific impairments [6, 7] or ‘comprehensive’ treatments that treat both emotion recognition and the more complex theory of mind abilities needed to understand other people’s mental states [8–10]. Both targeted and comprehensive programs have demonstrated efficacy in improving the social cognitive domains they were developed to treat [4, 11].…”

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A quasi-randomized feasibility pilot study of specific treatments to improve emotion recognition and mental-state reasoning impairments in schizophrenia

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BackgroundImpaired ability to make inferences about what another person might think or feel (i.e., social cognition impairment) is recognised as a core feature of schizophrenia and a key determinant of the poor social functioning that characterizes this illness. The development of treatments to target social cognitive impairments as a causal factor of impaired functioning in schizophrenia is of high priority. In this study, we investigated the acceptability, feasibility, and limited efficacy of 2 programs targeted at specific domains of social cognition in schizophrenia: “SoCog” Mental-State Reasoning Training (SoCog-MSRT) and “SoCog” Emotion Recognition Training (SoCog-ERT).MethodThirty-one participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were allocated to either SoCog-MSRT (n = 19) or SoCog-ERT (n = 12). Treatment comprised 12 twice-weekly sessions for 6 weeks. Participants underwent assessments of social cognition, neurocognition and symptoms at baseline, post-training and 3-months after completing training.ResultsAttendance at training sessions was high with an average of 89.29 % attendance in the SoCog-MSRT groups and 85.42 % in the SoCog-ERT groups. Participants also reported the 2 programs as enjoyable and beneficial. Both SoCog-MSRT and SoCog-ERT groups showed increased scores on a false belief reasoning task and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. The SoCog-MSRT group also showed reduced personalising attributional biases in a small number of participants, while the SoCog-ERT group showed improved emotion recognition.ConclusionsThe results are promising and support the feasibility and acceptability of the 2 SoCog programs as well as limited efficacy to improve social cognitive abilities in schizophrenia. There is also some evidence that skills for the recognition of basic facial expressions need specific training.Trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12613000978763. Retrospectively registered 3/09/2013.

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It is written all over your face: Socially rejected people display microexpressions that are detectable after training in the Micro Expression Training Tool (METT)

McDonald

Newby‐Clark

Walker

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Euro J Social Psych

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Social rejection is a powerful negative emotional experience, yet rejected people often appear stoic and unmoved. That is, their macroexpressions of emotion are not accurate reflections of their emotional states. Yet, there is reason to believe that rejected people exhibit involuntary microexpressions of negative emotion. We contrasted people's macroexpressions of emotion with their microexpressions subsequent to an acceptance or rejection experience. Observers coded microexpressions after being trained with the Micro Expression Training Tool. Rejected participants expressed more sad and angry microexpressions than did accepted participants. This research demonstrates that socially rejected people display negative microexpressions that are detectable by observers trained in the Micro Expression Training Tool.

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Remediation of Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia: Functional Predictors, Generalizability, and Durability

Cited by 35 publications

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Metacognitive and social cognition training (MSCT) in schizophrenia: A preliminary efficacy study

Metacognitive and social cognition training (MSCT) in schizophrenia: A preliminary efficacy study

A quasi-randomized feasibility pilot study of specific treatments to improve emotion recognition and mental-state reasoning impairments in schizophrenia

It is written all over your face: Socially rejected people display microexpressions that are detectable after training in the Micro Expression Training Tool (METT)

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