Social Cognition of Patients with Schizophrenia: Overview, Brain Mechanisms, Detection, and Intervention | Chapter 4 | Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 5

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.

 

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A Treatment to Enhance Social Reading Capabilities in a Gifted Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Chapter 08 | New Horizons in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 7

 Social cognitive problems have been found in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The goal of this clinical case study was to describe the social cognition evaluation and treatment of SC (9 years old), a talented child with ASD and a high verbal IQ (146). The treatment's goals were to increase the child's ability to decode social behaviour and to strengthen his mentalistic reasoning. Theory of mind, emotion perception, and pragmatic abilities were all evaluated, and deficiencies were discovered in each. During the four-month treatment, which was divided into 14 sessions, SC's ability to notice emotions and comprehend mental states was to be improved. The main method of the intervention was "social reading" with video snippets. The first assessment was repeated in a follow-up session after the treatment. The social cognition assessments improved at the end of the treatment and during the follow-up. The results of this case study suggest that "social reading" could be a valuable method for children with high-functioning ASD, especially gifted youngsters.

Author(S) Details

Sergio Melogno
Department of Human Neurosciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Roma, Italy and Faculty of Psychology, Niccolò Cusano Telematic University of Rome, Italy.

Barbara Trimarco
Department of Human Neurosciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Roma, Italy.

Maria Antonietta Pinto
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy.

Gabriel Levi
Department of Human Neurosciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Roma, Italy.


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