Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

Empathy is a complex construct, thought to contain multiple components. One popular
measurement paradigm, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), has been used extensively …

Nearly all mental disorders increase suicide risk; however, some better predict ideation
versus attempts. The interpersonal theory of suicide provides a framework to understand …

Patients with schizophrenia report reduced pain sensitivity in clinical studies, but
experimental studies are required to establish pain sensitivity as a potential endophenotype …

Background Affective empathy, or the emotional response one has to the experiences or
emotional states of others, contributes to relationship-maintaining behaviors and is key in …

Chronic pain induced by nerve damage due to trauma or invasion of cancer to the bone
elicits severe ongoing pain as well as hyperalgesia and allodynia likely reflecting adaptive …

Social cognition impairment predicts social functioning in schizophrenia. Several studies
have found abnormal brain activation in patients with schizophrenia during social cognition …

Background People with schizophrenia frequently have physical comorbidities that can
cause pain. Experimental studies report reduced pain sensitivity among schizophrenia …

Multiple disorders once jointly conceived as “nervous diseases” became segregated by the
distinct institutional traditions forged in neurology and psychiatry. As a result, each field …

Objectives: This article describes the development of a large-scale face stimulus database
focusing on expressions of pain. Methods: We collected and normed a database of images …