SynthesisNeuropsychology review2016
Neuroplastic Changes Following Social Cognition Training in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review.
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- The social cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie social functioning in individuals with schizophrenia - a review.Translational psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Functional connectivity associated with improvement in emotion management after cognitive enhancement therapy in early-course schizophrenia.Psychological medicine · 2022Trial
- Neural changes following a body-oriented resilience therapy with elements of kickboxing for individuals with a psychotic disorder: a randomized controlled trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Trial
- Unraveling sex differences in maternal and paternal care impacts on social behaviors and neurobiological responses to early-life adversity.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Social cognition training improves recognition of distinct facial emotions and decreases misattribution errors in healthy individuals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- A multivariate neuromonitoring approach to neuroplasticity-based computerized cognitive training in recent onset psychosis.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Reduced Annexin A3 in schizophrenia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2020Article
- Social Cognition and Schizophrenia: Unresolved Issues and New Challenges in a Maturing Field of Research.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2020Article
- Modeling Social Sensory Processing During Social Computerized Cognitive Training for Psychosis Spectrum: The Resting-State Approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Facial Expression Processing Across the Autism-Psychosis Spectra: A Review of Neural Findings and Associations With Adverse Childhood Events.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- A Multimodal Speech-Gesture Training Intervention for Patients With Schizophrenia and Its Neural Underpinnings - the Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Nonsocial and social cognition in schizophrenia: current evidence and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2019Article
- Cognition and Related Neural Findings on Methamphetamine Use Disorder: Insights and Treatment Implications From Schizophrenia Research.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
- Accelerating research on treatment and services for transition age youth and adults on the autism spectrum.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2018Article
- Social Cognitive Training Improves Emotional Processing and Reduces Aggressive Attitudes in Ex-combatants.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Social cognitive impairment is a key feature of schizophrenia and social cognition training (SCT) is a promising tool to address these deficits. Neurobiological dysfunction in schizophrenia has been widely researched, but neuronal changes induced by SCT have been scarcely explored. This review aims to assess the neuroplastic effects of SCT in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. PubMed and Web of Science databases were searched for clinical trials testing the effects of SCT in functional and structural brain measurements of adult patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders. A total of 11 studies were included: five used fMRI, two used EEG and ERP, one used ERP only, two used MEG and one study used MRI. Data extracting and processing regarding sociodemographic and clinical variables, intervention characteristics, neuroimaging procedures, neuroplastic findings, effect sizes and study quality criteria was completed by two raters. Results indicate a wide range of structural and functional changes in numerous regions and circuits of the social brain, including early perceptual areas, the limbic system and prefrontal regions. Despite the small number of trials currently available, evidence suggests that SCT is associated with neuroplastic changes in the social brain and concomitant improvements in social cognitive performance. There is a lack of extensive knowledge about the neural mechanisms that underlie social cognitive enhancement after treatment, but the reported findings may shed light on the neural substrates of social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and how improved treatment procedures can be developed and applied.
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