Social cognition in schizophrenia: a review of face processing

Marwick, Katie; Hall, Jérémy

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“…7 While the capacity to remember socially relevant information may partly rely on the same memory systems involved in emotional memory, evidence also suggests that memory for social information relies on specific brain regions, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC). 8,9 It is now well known that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty processing social cues, [10][11][12] which likely contributes to social dysfunction. 13 Such a dysfunction is a hallmark characteristic of schizophrenia with important implications for the outcome of this illness.…”

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Neural correlates of recognition memory of social information in people with schizophrenia

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2014

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Neural correlates of recognition memory of social information in people with schizophrenia

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2014

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“…There has been a surge of interest recently in the finding of impaired ability to identify emotions from facial expressions in schizophrenia (Marwick & Hall, 2008 ;Kohler et al 2009). This deficit has been considered to be associated with aspects of the clinical picture such as positive and negative symptoms and social functioning (Mandal et al 1998 ;Kohler et al 2000 ;Silver et al 2002 ;Sachs et al 2004 ;Hofer et al 2009).…”

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Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a non-specific neuropsychological deficit?

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BackgroundIdentification of facial emotions has been found to be impaired in schizophrenia but there are uncertainties about the neuropsychological specificity of the finding.MethodTwenty-two patients with schizophrenia and 20 healthy controls were given tests requiring identification of facial emotion, judgement of the intensity of emotional expressions without identification, familiar face recognition and the Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT). The schizophrenia patients were selected to be relatively intellectually preserved.ResultsThe patients with schizophrenia showed no deficit in identifying facial emotion, although they were slower than the controls. They were, however, impaired on judging the intensity of emotional expression without identification. They showed impairment in recognizing familiar faces but not on the BFRT.ConclusionsWhen steps are taken to reduce the effects of general intellectual impairment, there is no deficit in identifying facial emotions in schizophrenia. There may, however, be a deficit in judging emotional intensity. The impairment found in naming familiar faces is consistent with other evidence of semantic memory impairment in the disorder.

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“…The majority of studies have investigated the ability of affected individuals to identify basic emotional expressions from faces. Patients with schizophrenia have been shown to have deficits in the recognition of negative facial emotions, especially during psychotic episodes (Mandal et al 1998 ;Edwards et al 2002 ;Marwick & Hall, 2008). Individuals with ASD have also been shown to have impairments in facial emotion recognition, with some studies finding a particular deficit for the emotion of fear whereas other studies report a more pervasive deficit (Hobson et al 1988 ;Celani et al 1999 ;Howard et al 2000 ;Adolphs et al 2001 ;Pelphrey et al 2002).…”

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A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement

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Background. A wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), are associated with impairments in social function. Previous studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia and ASD have deficits in making a wide range of social judgements from faces, including decisions related to threat (such as judgements of approachability) and decisions not related to physical threat (such as judgements of intelligence). We have investigated healthy control participants to see whether there is a common neural system activated during such social decisions, on the basis that deficits in this system may contribute to the impairments seen in these disorders.Method. We investigated the neural basis of social decision making during judgements of approachability and intelligence from faces in 24 healthy participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We used conjunction analysis to identify common brain regions activated during both tasks.Results. Activation of the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, inferior prefrontal cortex and cerebellum was seen during performance of both social tasks, compared to simple gender judgements from the same stimuli. Task-specific activations were present in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the intelligence task and in the inferior and middle temporal cortex in the approachability task.Conclusions. The present study identified a common network of brain regions activated during the performance of two different forms of social judgement from faces. Dysfunction of this network is likely to contribute to the broad-ranging deficits in social function seen in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and ASD.

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Social cognition in schizophrenia: a review of face processing

Abstract: Research is required to understand more about both the basis of social deficits in schizophrenia and their potential remediation.

Cited by 178 publications

References 52 publications

Neural correlates of recognition memory of social information in people with schizophrenia

Neural correlates of recognition memory of social information in people with schizophrenia

Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a non-specific neuropsychological deficit?

A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement

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