Impaired ability to recognize emotion in other's face (decoding) or to express emotion
through the face (encoding) are considered critical in schizophrenia. The topic of research …

One of the most used self-administered instruments to assess persecutory delusions is the
Persecutory Ideation Questionnaire (PIQ). Individual differences in PIQ scores are important …

Objective Neurocognitive impairment has been extensively studied in people with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders and seems to be one of the major determinants of …

Introduction Social dysfunction is a key feature of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia
linked to disability. Less is known about social functioning in the early stages of the disorder …

Nonverbal communication habitually leaks out in ways that expose underlying thoughts, true
feelings, and integrity of a counterpart. Social cognition is deficient in a wide range of mental …

Introduction Deficits in emotion recognition and processing are characteristic for patients
with schizophrenia [SCZ]. Methods We targeted both emotion recognition and affective …

Background Patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) exhibit difficulties deficits in recognizing
facial expressions with unambiguous valence. However, only a limited number of studies …

Predictive processing accounts of psychosis conceptualize delusions as overly strong
learned expectations (prior beliefs) that shape cognition and perception. Paranoia, the most …

It was still unclear that the correlation between the resting-state intrinsic activity in brain
regions and facial emotion recognition (FER) ability in patients with first-episode …

Impaired capability for understanding and interpreting the expressions on other people's
faces manifests itself as a core feature of schizophrenia, contributing to social dysfunction …