Impaired ability to recognize emotion in other's face (decoding) or to express emotion
through the face (encoding) are considered critical in schizophrenia. The topic of research …

The treatment of psychiatric diseases with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is becoming more
of a reality as studies proliferate the indications and targets for therapies. Opinions on the …

Emotional intelligence (EI) may promote wellbeing through facilitation of adaptive attentional
processing patterns. In the current study, a total of 54 adults (43 females, mean age= 25 …

Accurately recognizing facial expressions is essential for effective social interactions. Non-
human primates (NHPs) are widely used in the study of the neural mechanisms …

Few psychosocial approaches address the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, which
shares common features with depression and anxiety. Behavioral activation (BA) is effective …

Social motivation disturbances have been long observed in people with schizophrenia, yet
the underlying components that drive these impairments remain unclear. Social attention is …

Motivation and negative symptom research has recently been hampered by a series of
inconsistent findings, leading to calls for a greater consensus on the type of measures used …

Background Patients with schizophrenia show abnormal gaze processing, which is
associated with social dysfunction. These abnormalities are related to aberrant connectivity …

Attentional biases to emotional information may play a key role in the onset and course of
schizophrenia. The aim of this experiment was to examine the attentional processing of four …

Objective The insula is involved in general and social cognition, in particular emotion
regulation. Aim of this study is to investigate whether insula volume is associated with …