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 …

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

The current management of patients with primary psychosis worldwide is often remarkably
stereotyped. In almost all cases an antipsychotic medication is prescribed, with second …

Social cognition broadly refers to the processing of social information in the brain that
underlies abilities such as the detection of others' emotions and responding appropriately to …

Despite a lack of recent progress in the treatment of schizophrenia, our understanding of its
genetic and environmental causes has considerably improved, and their relationship to …

Efforts to develop psychosocial interventions that specifically target social cognition in
schizophrenia spectrum disorders began nearly two decades ago. The field has matured …

Background Intranasal administration of oxytocin is increasingly explored as a new
approach to facilitate social development and reduce disability associated with a diagnosis …

Schizophrenia is a form of mental disorder that is behaviorally characterized by abnormal
behavior, such as social function deficits or other behaviors that are disconnected from …

The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT), highly conserved during evolution, is an important
modulator of social and emotional processes across many species. During the last decade …

Social disability is a defining characteristic of schizophrenia and a substantial public health
problem. It has several components that are difficult to disentangle. One component, social …