The impact of emotional faces on social motivation in schizophrenia

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Sina RadkeBirgit Derntl

Abstract

Impairments in emotion recognition and psychosocial functioning are a robust phenomenon in schizophrenia and may affect motivational behavior, particularly during socio-emotional interactions. To characterize potential deficits and their interplay, we assessed social motivation covering various facets, such as implicit and explicit approach-avoidance tendencies to facial expressions, in 27 patients with schizophrenia (SZP) and 27 matched healthy controls (HC). Moreover, emotion recognition abilities as well as self-reported behavioral activation and inhibition were evaluated. Compared to HC, SZP exhibited less pronounced approach-avoidance ratings to happy and angry expressions along with prolonged reactions during automatic approach-avoidance. Although deficits in emotion recognition were replicated, these were not associated with alterations in social motivation. Together with additional connections between psychopathology and several approach-avoidance processes, these results identify motivational impairments in SZP and suggest a complex relationship between different aspects of social motivation. In the context of specialized interventions aimed at improving social cognitive abilities in SZP, the link between such dynamic ...Continue Reading

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Sep 1, 2015·European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience·Andrea Schmitt, Peter Falkai
Jun 1, 2016·Schizophrenia Research·L Felice ReddyWilliam P Horan
Mar 5, 2016·Schizophrenia Bulletin·Leonhard SchilbachSimon B Eickhoff
Feb 8, 2018·Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience·Sina RadkeBirgit Derntl
Nov 21, 2016·European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience·Birgit Derntl, Ute Habel
Aug 26, 2020·Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews·Jessica L MowDaniel Fulford
Jul 27, 2021·Journal of Mental Health·Samuel J AbplanalpDaniel Fulford

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