Schizophrenia risk has often been conceptualized using a model which requires two hits in
order to generate the clinical phenotype—the first as an early priming in a genetically …

Objective Individuals with chronic schizophrenia (SCZ) consistently show impairments in
social cognition (SC) that are associated with functional decline, and work suggests that …

Objectives: A considerable body of literature has reported on emotion perception deficits
and the relevance to clinical symptoms and social functioning in schizophrenia. Studies …

Robust evidence has accumulated showing that individuals who develop schizophrenia are
at elevated risk when compared to the general population to engage in violence towards …

Background Virtual reality (VR) enables the administration of realistic and dynamic stimuli
within a social context for the assessment and training of emotion recognition. We tested a …

Empathy is a multidimensional construct composed of several components such as emotion
recognition, emotional perspective taking and affective responsiveness. Patients with …

Problems in the perception of emotional material, in particular deficits in the recognition of
negative stimuli, have been demonstrated in schizophrenia including in first-episode …

Background People with schizophrenia have difficulties in interpreting social information.
Much social information is gathered from faces, and face processing represents a well …

Social cognition is affected in people with schizophrenia, but whether this is the case for
healthy relatives of these patients is less clear. The presence of social cognition impairments …

Facial emotion processing has been extensively studied in schizophrenia patients while
general face processing has received less attention. The already published reviews do not …