Artículo
Contextual Social Cognition impairments in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
; Herrera, Eduar; Villarin, Lilian; Theil, Donna; González Gadea, María Luz
; Gomez, Pedro; Mosquera, Marcela; Huepe, David; Strejilevich, Sergio; Vigliecca, Nora Silvana
; Matthaüs, Franziska ; Decety, Jean; Manes, Facundo Francisco
; Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
Fecha de publicación:
03/2013
Editorial:
Public Library Of Science
Revista:
Plos One
ISSN:
1932-6203
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Resumen
Background: The ability to integrate contextual information with social cues to generate social meaning is a key aspect of social cognition. It is widely accepted that patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders have deficits in social cognition; however, previous studies on these disorders did not use tasks that replicate everyday situations.
Methodology/Principal Findings: This study evaluates the performance of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders on social cognition tasks (emotional processing, empathy, and social norms knowledge) that incorporate different levels of contextual dependence and involvement of real-life scenarios. Furthermore, we explored the association between social cognition measures, clinical symptoms and executive functions. Using a logistic regression analysis, we explored whether the involvement of more basic skills in emotional processing predicted performance on empathy tasks. The results showed that both patient groups exhibited deficits in social cognition tasks with greater context sensitivity and involvement of real-life scenarios. These deficits were more severe in schizophrenic than in bipolar patients. Patients did not differ from controls in tasks involving explicit knowledge. Moreover, schizophrenic patients’ depression levels were negatively correlated with performance on empathy tasks.
Conclusions/Significance: Overall performance on emotion recognition predicted performance on intentionality attribution during the more ambiguous situations of the empathy task. These results suggest that social cognition deficits could be related to a general impairment in the capacity to implicitly integrate contextual cues. Important implications for the assessment and treatment of individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, as well as for neurocognitive models of these pathologies are discussed.
Palabras clave:
Social Cognition
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Schizophrenia
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Bipolar Disorders
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Contextual Information
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Articulos(IDH)
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE HUMANIDADES
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE HUMANIDADES
Articulos(SEDE CENTRAL)
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Citación
Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena; Herrera, Eduar; Villarin, Lilian; Theil, Donna; González Gadea, María Luz; et al.; Contextual Social Cognition impairments in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder; Public Library Of Science; Plos One; 8; 3; 3-2013; 1-13; e57664
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