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Barlati S, Minelli A, Ceraso A, Nibbio G, Carvalho Silva R, Deste G, Turrina C, Vita A. Social Cognition in a Research Domain Criteria Perspective: A Bridge Between Schizophrenia and Autism Spectra Disorders. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:806. [PMID: 33005149 PMCID: PMC7485015 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Schizophrenia and autism spectra disorders are currently conceptualized as distinct clinical categories. However, the relationship between these two nosological entities has been revisited in recent years due to the evidence that they share some important clinical and neurobiological features, putting into question the nature and the extent of their commonalities and differences. In this respect, some core symptoms that are present in both disorders, such as social cognitive deficits, could be a primary target of investigation. This review briefly summarizes the commonalities and overlapping features between schizophrenia and autism spectra disorders in social cognitive functions, considering this construct in a Research Domain Criteria perspective. The clinical manifestation of deficits in social cognition are similar in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and autism spectrum disorders, and brain areas that appear to be altered in relation to these impairments are largely shared; however, the results of various studies suggest that, in some cases, the qualitative nature of these alterations may be different in the two spectra. Moreover, relevant differences could be present at the level of brain networks and connections. More research is required in this field, regarding molecular and genetic aspects of both spectra, to better define the neurobiological mechanisms involved in social cognition deficits, with the objective of developing specific and targeted treatments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefano Barlati
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.,Genetics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Genetics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.,Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.,Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.,Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Hamakawa M, Okamoto T. The effect of different emotional states on olfactory perception: A preliminary study. FLAVOUR FRAG J 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ffj.3469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Masayuki Hamakawa
- Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences; Kyushu University; Fukuoka Japan
- Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Tokyo Japan
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- Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences; Kyushu University; Fukuoka Japan
- Faculty of Arts and Science; Kyushu University; Fukuoka Japan
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Fonseca AO, Berberian AA, de Meneses-Gaya C, Gadelha A, Vicente MDO, Nuechterlein KH, Bressan RA, Lacerda ALT. The Brazilian standardization of the MATRICS consensus cognitive battery (MCCB): Psychometric study. Schizophr Res 2017; 185:148-153. [PMID: 28110814 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Translate, adapt, and validate the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) in Brazil. METHOD The present study followed three steps: 1) translation to Portuguese, cultural adaptation, and back translation to English; 2) completion of a pilot study (N=30) conducted with the purpose of assessing whether the general comprehension of the items was clear and all participants adequately responded to the battery; 3) completion of a Reliability and Validation Study of the Brazilian version of the MCCB with 99 individuals with schizophrenia and 99 healthy subjects. All participants were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and patients were also rated on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale and the Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale (PANSS). RESULTS The results showed adequate to high levels of baseline and 4-week retest reliability, except the MSCEIT-ME; adequate internal consistency for the MSCEIT-ME for the total sample and patients group, and moderate Alpha for the health control sample; as well as evidence of convergent validity and sensitivity to differentiate performance between the groups. All the 10 MCCB measures showed the lowest learning effects. CONCLUSION Overall the Brazilian version of the MCCB showed similar results to the original North American version. Our findings provides reassurance that the MCCB is a reliable and valid measure of cognition across different countries and cultures, which is especially important to the ongoing work in attempting to discover cognition-enhancing drugs and the effects of cognitive interventions for the treatment of schizophrenia.
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- Ana Olívia Fonseca
- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil.
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- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil; Centro Universitário FIEO, Strict Sensu Educational Psychology Program, 300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Room 2240, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil
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- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil
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- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil
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- UCLA, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences , 300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Room 2240, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; UCLA, Department Psychology, 300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Room 2240, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil
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- Universiedade Federal de Sao Paulo (Unifesp), Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), and Schizophrenia Program (PROESQ), Brazil
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Fairhall SL, Porter KB, Bellucci C, Mazzetti M, Cipolli C, Gobbini MI. Plastic reorganization of neural systems for perception of others in the congenitally blind. Neuroimage 2017; 158:126-135. [PMID: 28669909 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Revised: 05/25/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Recent evidence suggests that the function of the core system for face perception might extend beyond visual face-perception to a broader role in person perception. To critically test the broader role of core face-system in person perception, we examined the role of the core system during the perception of others in 7 congenitally blind individuals and 15 sighted subjects by measuring their neural responses using fMRI while they listened to voices and performed identity and emotion recognition tasks. We hypothesised that in people who have had no visual experience of faces, core face-system areas may assume a role in the perception of others via voices. Results showed that emotions conveyed by voices can be decoded in homologues of the core face system only in the blind. Moreover, there was a specific enhancement of response to verbal as compared to non-verbal stimuli in bilateral fusiform face areas and the right posterior superior temporal sulcus showing that the core system also assumes some language-related functions in the blind. These results indicate that, in individuals with no history of visual experience, areas of the core system for face perception may assume a role in aspects of voice perception that are relevant to social cognition and perception of others' emotions.
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- S L Fairhall
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy.
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica, Diagnostica e Sperimentale (DIMES), Medical School, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica, Diagnostica e Sperimentale (DIMES), Medical School, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica, Diagnostica e Sperimentale (DIMES), Medical School, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica, Diagnostica e Sperimentale (DIMES), Medical School, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
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Wiggert N, Wilhelm FH, Boger S, Georgii C, Klimesch W, Blechert J. Social Pavlovian conditioning: Short- and long-term effects and the role of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016; 12:329-339. [PMID: 27614767 PMCID: PMC5390734 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Today's stressors largely arise from social interactions rather than from physical threat. However, the dominant laboratory model of emotional learning relies on physical stimuli (e.g. electric shock) whereas adequate models of social conditioning are missing, possibly due to more subtle and multilayered biobehavioral responses to such stimuli. To fill this gap, we acquired a broad set of measures during conditioning to negative social unconditioned stimuli, also taking into account long-term maintenance of conditioning and inter-individual differences. Fifty-nine healthy participants underwent a classical conditioning task with videos of actors expressing disapproving (US-neg) or neutral (US-neu) statements. Static images of the corresponding actors with a neutral facial expression served as CS+ and CS-, predicting US-neg and US-neu, respectively. Autonomic and facial-muscular measures confirmed differential unconditioned responding whereas experiential CS ratings, event-related potentials, and evoked theta oscillations confirmed differential conditioned responding. Conditioning was maintained at 1 month and 1 year follow-ups on experiential ratings, especially in individuals with elevated anxiety and depressive symptoms, documenting the efficiency of social conditioning and its clinical relevance. This novel, ecologically improved conditioning paradigm uncovered a remarkably efficient multi-layered social learning mechanism that may represent a risk factor for anxiety and depression.
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- Nicole Wiggert
- Division of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria,Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria,Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria,Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Kadohisa M. Effects of odor on emotion, with implications. Front Syst Neurosci 2013; 7:66. [PMID: 24124415 PMCID: PMC3794443 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2013] [Accepted: 09/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The sense of smell is found widely in the animal kingdom. Human and animal studies show that odor perception is modulated by experience and/or physiological state (such as hunger), and that some odors can arouse emotion, and can lead to the recall of emotional memories. Further, odors can influence psychological and physiological states. Individual odorants are mapped via gene-specified receptors to corresponding glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, which directly projects to the piriform cortex and the amygdala without a thalamic relay. The odors to which a glomerulus responds reflect the chemical structure of the odorant. The piriform cortex and the amygdala both project to the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) which with the amygdala is involved in emotion and associative learning, and to the entorhinal/hippocampal system which is involved in long-term memory including episodic memory. Evidence that some odors can modulate emotion and cognition is described, and the possible implications for the treatment of psychological problems, for example in reducing the effects of stress, are considered.
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- Mikiko Kadohisa
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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Alba-Ferrara L, Hausmann M, Mitchell RL, Weis S. The neural correlates of emotional prosody comprehension: disentangling simple from complex emotion. PLoS One 2011; 6:e28701. [PMID: 22174872 PMCID: PMC3236212 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2011] [Accepted: 11/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Emotional prosody comprehension (EPC), the ability to interpret another person's feelings by listening to their tone of voice, is crucial for effective social communication. Previous studies assessing the neural correlates of EPC have found inconsistent results, particularly regarding the involvement of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). It remained unclear whether the involvement of the mPFC is linked to an increased demand in socio-cognitive components of EPC such as mental state attribution and if basic perceptual processing of EPC can be performed without the contribution of this region. Methods fMRI was used to delineate neural activity during the perception of prosodic stimuli conveying simple and complex emotion. Emotional trials in general, as compared to neutral ones, activated a network comprising temporal and lateral frontal brain regions, while complex emotion trials specifically showed an additional involvement of the mPFC, premotor cortex, frontal operculum and left insula. Conclusion These results indicate that the mPFC and premotor areas might be associated, but are not crucial to EPC. However, the mPFC supports socio-cognitive skills necessary to interpret complex emotion such as inferring mental states. Additionally, the premotor cortex involvement may reflect the participation of the mirror neuron system for prosody processing particularly of complex emotion.
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- Lucy Alba-Ferrara
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America.
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Sugranyes G, Kyriakopoulos M, Corrigall R, Taylor E, Frangou S. Autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia: meta-analysis of the neural correlates of social cognition. PLoS One 2011; 6:e25322. [PMID: 21998649 PMCID: PMC3187762 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2011] [Accepted: 08/31/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Context Impaired social cognition is a cardinal feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Schizophrenia (SZ). However, the functional neuroanatomy of social cognition in either disorder remains unclear due to variability in primary literature. Additionally, it is not known whether deficits in ASD and SZ arise from similar or disease-specific disruption of the social cognition network. Objective To identify regions most robustly implicated in social cognition processing in SZ and ASD. Data Sources Systematic review of English language articles using MEDLINE (1995–2010) and reference lists. Study Selection Studies were required to use fMRI to compare ASD or SZ subjects to a matched healthy control group, provide coordinates in standard stereotactic space, and employ standardized facial emotion recognition (FER) or theory of mind (TOM) paradigms. Data Extraction Activation foci from studies meeting inclusion criteria (n = 33) were subjected to a quantitative voxel-based meta-analysis using activation likelihood estimation, and encompassed 146 subjects with ASD, 336 SZ patients and 492 healthy controls. Results Both SZ and ASD showed medial prefrontal hypoactivation, which was more pronounced in ASD, while ventrolateral prefrontal dysfunction was associated mostly with SZ. Amygdala hypoactivation was observed in SZ patients during FER and in ASD during more complex ToM tasks. Both disorders were associated with hypoactivation within the Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) during ToM tasks, but activation in these regions was increased in ASD during affect processing. Disease-specific differences were noted in somatosensory engagement, which was increased in SZ and decreased in ASD. Reduced thalamic activation was uniquely seen in SZ. Conclusions Reduced frontolimbic and STS engagement emerged as a shared feature of social cognition deficits in SZ and ASD. However, there were disease- and stimulus-specific differences. These findings may aid future studies on SZ and ASD and facilitate the formulation of new hypotheses regarding their pathophysiology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gisela Sugranyes
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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