The social brain hypothesis is a useful heuristic for understanding schizophrenia. It focuses
attention on the core Bleulerian concept of autistic alienation and is consistent with well …

This article discusses the important advances in a recent field of science dealing with the
brain processes implicated in understanding social situations and interacting with others …

Background. A better understanding of the neural basis of social cognition including
mindreading (or theory of mind) and empathy might help to explain some deficits in social …

Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia involves a broad array of nonsocial and social
cognitive domains. It is a core feature of the illness, and one with substantial implications for …

In the past ten years, major developments in scientific research have drastically changed the
way schizophrenia is viewed. Neuroscience, in particular, has enabled researchers to frame …

Patients with schizophrenia not only suffer from prototypical psychotic symptoms such as
delusions and hallucinations and from cognitive deficits, but also from tremendous deficits in …

Several studies have indicated that schizophrenic patients show impaired performance in
various aspects of social cognition, including theory of mind, emotion processing, and …

The plethora of varied and often conflictual research evidence on the functional psychoses
calls for a unifying explanatory framework. An evolutionary framework is appropriate in view …

Therapeutic strategies for improving social cognition in patients with schizophrenia have
shown much promise in improving social functioning, as well as remediating core psychotic …

Discusses the role of sociocultural factors in schizophrenia from the perspective of social
network theory. The difficulty in investigating which social factors are most fundamentally …