The topic of social cognition has attracted considerable interest in schizophrenia over the
last several years. This construct generally refers to the detection, processing, and utilization …

Empathy is a highly flexible and adaptive process that allows for the interplay of prosocial
behavior in many different social contexts. Empathy appears to be a very situated cognitive …

Context Impaired social cognition is a cardinal feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
and Schizophrenia (SZ). However, the functional neuroanatomy of social cognition in either …

Background: Emotional impairments constitute a crucial and widely described dimension of
alcoholism, but several affective abilities are still to be thoroughly explored among alcohol …

Social cognition abilities are severely impaired in schizophrenia (SZ). The current meta-
analysis used foci of 21 individual studies on functional abnormalities in the schizophrenic …

Background Despite the marked interindividual variability in the clinical presentation of
schizophrenia, the extent to which individual dimensions of psychopathology relate to the …

Social cognition consists of several skills which allow us to interact with other humans.
These skills include social stimuli processing, drawing inferences about others' mental …

Processing of social and emotional information has been shown to be disturbed in
schizophrenia. The biological underpinnings of these abnormalities may be explained by an …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to attribute and reason about the mental states of
others, is a strong determinant of social functioning among individuals with schizophrenia …

BACKGROUND: Mood disorders are associated with the highest increase of attempted and
completed suicide. Suicidality in major depressive disorder and in schizophrenia has been …