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Schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Focus on social cognition and empathy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

C. Gramaglia ,
E. Gattoni ,
G. Giovanna ,
S. Gili ,
A. Feggi ,
V. Binda ,
P. Prosperini  and
P. Zeppegno
C. Gramaglia*
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Piedmont, Traslational Medicine, Novara, Italy
E. Gattoni
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Piedmont, Traslational Medicine, Novara, Italy
G. Giovanna
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Piedmont, Traslational Medicine, Novara, Italy
S. Gili
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Piedmont, Traslational Medicine, Novara, Italy
A. Feggi
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Piedmont, Traslational Medicine, Novara, Italy
V. Binda
Affiliation:
AOU “Maggiore della Carità”, S.C. Psichiatria, Novara, Italy
P. Prosperini
Affiliation:
AOU “Maggiore della Carità”, S.C. Psichiatria, Novara, Italy
P. Zeppegno
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Piedmont, Traslational Medicine, Novara, Italy
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Background

Schizophrenic patients show deficits in social cognition, functioning and in interpreting facial expressions. These disabilities contribute to global impairment in social and relational skills. Data started being collected in the context of the Italian Network of Research on Psychosis headed by Prof. Maj and Prof. Galderisi (Galderisi S et al. The influence of illness-related variables, personal resources and context-related factors on real-life functioning of people with schizophrenia. World Psychiatry 2014:275–87. Mucci A et al. The Specific Level of Functioning Scale: Construct validity, internal consistency and factor structure in a large Italian sample of people with schizophrenia living in the community. Schizophr Res 2014;159(1):144-50); collection in our centre went on also after the conclusion of the national project.

Aims

To identify the correlations among social inference, facial emotion identification and clinical history and therapies in schizophrenic patients.

Material and methods

We recruited patients with Schizophrenia referring to our Psychiatry Ward, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy. Socio-demographic characteristics were gathered; assessment of patients included The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT), the Facial Emotion Identification Test (FEIT), the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS).

Results

Data collection is still ongoing. In a previous study we pointed out that schizophrenic patients showed social skills deficits and difficulties in identifying facial emotions. These features underlie poor and limited social relationships proper to schizophrenia. Our preliminary results revealed thatidentification of facial emotions is influenced by psychopathological symptoms especially by avolition, blunted affect and alogia. Implication will be discussed.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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EV1158
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S578
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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