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Out of touch with reality? Social perception in first-episode schizophrenia

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Ebisch, Sjoerd J. H., Salone, Anatolia, Ferri, Francesca, De Berardis, Domenico, Romani, Gian Luca, Ferro, Filippo M., Gallese, Vittorio·2013·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Social dysfunction has been recognized as an elementary feature of schizophrenia, but it remains a crucial issue whether social deficits in schizophrenia concern the inter-subjective domain or primarily have their roots in disturbances of self-experience. Social perception comprises vicarious processes grounding an experiential inter-relationship with others as well as self-regulation processes allowing to maintain a coherent sense of self. The present study investigated whether the functional neural basis underlying these processes is altered in first-episode schizophrenia (FES). Twenty-four FES patients and 22 healthy control participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging during a social perception task requiring them to watch videos depicting other individuals' inanimate and animate/social tactile stimulations, and a tactile localizer condition. Activation in ventral premotor cortex for observed bodily tactile stimulations was reduced in the FES group and negatively correlated with self-experience disturbances. Moreover, FES patients showed aberrant differential activation in posterior insula for first-person tactile experiences and observed affective tactile stimulations. These findings suggest that social perception in FES at a pre-reflective level is characterized by disturbances of self-experience, including impaired multisensory representations and self-other distinction. However, the results also show that social perception in FES involves more complex alterations of neural activation at multiple processing levels.

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Authors
Ebisch, S. J. H., Salone, A., Ferri, F., De Berardis, D., Romani, G. L., Ferro, F. M., & Gallese, V.
Affiliations
Italian Institute of Technology (IT)
Venue
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Published
2012-01-24
Volume
8
Issue
4
Pages
394-403
ISSN
  • 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-5024
OpenAlex
W2143834993
Cited by
77
References
114
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FWCI
5.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
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  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
Keywords
first-episode schizophrenia, social perception, social dysfunction, self-experience, ventral premotor cortex, posterior insula, multisensory integration, self-other distinction, social cognition
MeSH terms
Adult, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Schizophrenia, Social Perception, Touch, Visual Perception, Touch Perception, Young Adult

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