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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Assessment Tools for Social Function in Patients with Schizophrenia | Chapter 12 | Advanced Concepts in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 6

 Objective: To outline the main tools for social function appraisal of schizophrenia in the past 30 age both domestically and internationally.Orders: Relevant literature review was transported to organize and analyze usually used social function appraisal scales for schizophrenia patients two together domestically and internationally.Results: The research results abroad are comparatively rich: From the perspective of content structure, skilled are single and multi-dimensional; From the outlook of application fields, it can be detached into daily functional estimate and comprehensive (combined regular functional with professional strength) assessment; From the perspective of explanation foundation, there are demonstrative standards based on the "Information of Mental Disorder Statistics and Disease", as well as clinical occurrence. There are few research results in China, mainly revisions of unfamiliar scales or simplified scales developed by refer to foreign methods, and their psychometric depiction needs to be verified and revised.Conclusion: The social function amount of schizophrenia is of great importance for the rehabilitation of patients, offspring harmony, and social security. Due to the strong educational dependence of social functions, we concede possibility strengthen the development and publicity of localized evaluation finishes.

Author(s) Details:

Hou Yongmei,
Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Management, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China.

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