scholarly journals The Need for a Theoretical Framework of Social Functioning to Optimize Targeted Therapies in Psychiatric Disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. e5-e7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elissar Andari
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Targeted Therapies ◽  
Theoretical Framework

Social Functioning and Facial Emotional Expression in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alizah Z. Brozgold ◽  
Joan C. Borod ◽  
Candace C. Martin ◽  
Lawrence H. Pick ◽  
Murray Alpert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Facial Emotional Expression

Psychiatric disorders and the social brain: Distinguishing mentalizing and empathizing

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Troisi
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Social Brain ◽  
Broad Term ◽  
The Social ◽  
Affective Components ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractSocial cognition is a broad term, incorporating all aspects of social functioning from perceiving emotional stimuli to attributional style and theory of mind. Not distinguishing between these different capacities may confound the interpretation of the data deriving from studies of the relationship between psychiatric disorders and the social brain. The distinction between cognitive and affective components of social cognition is clearly exemplified by the abnormalities observed in psychopathy and Williams syndrome.

Mental state understanding in adult psychiatric disorders: Impact on symptoms, social functioning and treatment

2011 ◽  
Vol 190 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Dimaggio ◽  
Giuseppe Nicolò ◽  
Martin Brüne ◽  
Paul H. Lysaker
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Mental State

Psychoaffective Immaturity in Psychiatric Disorders

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Loas ◽  
A. Seillier ◽  
C. Fréville
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Emotional Immaturity ◽  
Functioning Assessment

This study investigated the prevalence of psychoaffective immaturity and tested the hypothesis that it associated with bad prognosis. For 135 psychiatric patients meeting criteria for personality, neurotic, affective, substance use, or psychotic disorders emotional immaturity was rated using the 1985 diagnostic criteria of Doutheau, Dubertret, Moutin, and Barrois. 58 subjects (42.96%, 95% Confidence Interval: 34.61–51.31) were classified as immature. Scores of the Nonimmature and Immature groups were compared for the Beck Depression Inventory and the Professional and Social Functioning Assessment Scale. Scores were, respectively, significantly higher and lower in those patients classified as Immature than those who were classified Nonimmature. When depression was controlled by a covariance analysis, the mean difference on the Professional and Social Functioning Assessment Scale remained significant. It appears that psychoaffective immaturity is a factor associated with severity of psychiatric disorders.

Social Cognition and Its Neural Correlates in Schizophrenia and Autism

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeinab Abdi ◽  
Tonmoy Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Frontal Cortex ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Cognitive Remediation ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Cognitive Remediation Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Enhancers

AbstractThe study of social cognition in psychiatric disorders has become increasingly popular in recent years. This is due to the its proposed link to social functioning and the inability of general neurocognitive skills to explain the spectrum of impairments observed in patients. This article reviews research into two of the processes thought to underlie social cognition (emotion perception and theory of mind) in schizophrenia and autism. This is followed by a look at neuroimaging studies and their efforts to localize the neural correlates of emotion perception and theory of mind in the two disorders. We concluded that while a specific impairment in emotion perception and theory of mind skills cannot be generalized to all individuals with autism and schizophrenia, there are subpopulations that have lingering deficits of social cognition tasks. Neuroimaging work consistently points to the involvement of the fusiform gyrus and amygdala in emotion processing, while the medial prefrontal and frontal cortex are implicated in tasks invoking theory of mind. We propose that deficits of social cognition may benefit from cognitive remediation therapy and pharmacological cognitive enhancers.

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