Background: Patients with schizophrenia have significant deficiencies in various aspects of social cognition, such as emotional processing, social perception, and theory of mind. These defects have a greater impact on occupational and social functioning than symptoms. Therefore, social cognition is an important therapeutic target for patients with schizophrenia.
Aim: The present study highlights about social cognition of
patients with schizophrenia.
Methods: A literature search is used in this narrative review to
organize 76 papers from the past 30 years, elaborating on the connotation,
role, brain mechanisms, and detection methods of social cognition in patients
with schizophrenia. On this basis, several commonly used intervention methods
were introduced and compared.
Results: As a result, the social cognition of patients with
schizophrenia is significantly impaired, and its mechanism of occurrence is
quite complex, involving multiple regions of the brain. Various detection and
intervention methods have certain effects, but none of them has been able to
determine the key brain areas of social cognition and effectively improve the
social cognitive function of patients in real life.
Conclusion: Social cognitive function has a profound impact on the
prognosis, social adaptation, and quality of life of patients with
schizophrenia, but some key issues such as brain mechanisms and the practical
application of intervention effects urgently need to be addressed.
Author
(s) Details
Hou Yongmei
Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Management, Guangdong
Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cpassr/v5/2195
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