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Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia

OBJECTIVE: While impaired facial expression recognition has been closely associated with reduced temporal lobe volume in patients with schizophrenia, this study aimed at examining whether empathy and social attribution affect such a relationship. METHODS: A total of 43 patients with schizophrenia an...

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Autores principales: Jung, Minjee, Baik, Seung Yeon, Kim, Yourim, Kim, Sungkean, Min, Dongil, Kim, Jeong-Youn, Won, Seunghee, Lee, Seung-Hwan
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Publicado: Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7383013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32702215
http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2020.18.3.362
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author Jung, Minjee
Baik, Seung Yeon
Kim, Yourim
Kim, Sungkean
Min, Dongil
Kim, Jeong-Youn
Won, Seunghee
Lee, Seung-Hwan
author_facet Jung, Minjee
Baik, Seung Yeon
Kim, Yourim
Kim, Sungkean
Min, Dongil
Kim, Jeong-Youn
Won, Seunghee
Lee, Seung-Hwan
author_sort Jung, Minjee
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description OBJECTIVE: While impaired facial expression recognition has been closely associated with reduced temporal lobe volume in patients with schizophrenia, this study aimed at examining whether empathy and social attribution affect such a relationship. METHODS: A total of 43 patients with schizophrenia and 43 healthy controls underwent a facial expression recognition task (FERT) and magnetic resonance imaging. Basic empathy scale and the social attribution task-multiple choice were used to measure empathy and social attribution. RESULTS: Patients with schizophrenia showed significant positive correlations between the total temporal lobe volume and the FERT-accuracy (FERT-ACC). Diminished temporal lobe volume predicted the impaired facial emotion recognition ability. Both empathy and social attribution played roles as moderators of the path from the left amygdala volume, left fusiform gyrus volume, both sides of the superior temporal gyrus volume, and left middle temporal gyrus volume to the FERT-ACC. In contrast, empathy alone functioned as a moderator between the right fusiform gyrus volume, right middle temporal gyrus volume, and FERT-ACC. No significant interaction was found for healthy controls. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that social cognition remediation training on empathy and social attribution, could buffer the negative effects of small temporal lobe volume on interpersonal emotional communication in patients with schizophrenia.
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spelling pubmed-73830132020-08-31 Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia Jung, Minjee Baik, Seung Yeon Kim, Yourim Kim, Sungkean Min, Dongil Kim, Jeong-Youn Won, Seunghee Lee, Seung-Hwan Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci Original Article OBJECTIVE: While impaired facial expression recognition has been closely associated with reduced temporal lobe volume in patients with schizophrenia, this study aimed at examining whether empathy and social attribution affect such a relationship. METHODS: A total of 43 patients with schizophrenia and 43 healthy controls underwent a facial expression recognition task (FERT) and magnetic resonance imaging. Basic empathy scale and the social attribution task-multiple choice were used to measure empathy and social attribution. RESULTS: Patients with schizophrenia showed significant positive correlations between the total temporal lobe volume and the FERT-accuracy (FERT-ACC). Diminished temporal lobe volume predicted the impaired facial emotion recognition ability. Both empathy and social attribution played roles as moderators of the path from the left amygdala volume, left fusiform gyrus volume, both sides of the superior temporal gyrus volume, and left middle temporal gyrus volume to the FERT-ACC. In contrast, empathy alone functioned as a moderator between the right fusiform gyrus volume, right middle temporal gyrus volume, and FERT-ACC. No significant interaction was found for healthy controls. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that social cognition remediation training on empathy and social attribution, could buffer the negative effects of small temporal lobe volume on interpersonal emotional communication in patients with schizophrenia. Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020-08-31 2020-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7383013/ /pubmed/32702215 http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2020.18.3.362 Text en Copyright © 2020, Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Jung, Minjee
Baik, Seung Yeon
Kim, Yourim
Kim, Sungkean
Min, Dongil
Kim, Jeong-Youn
Won, Seunghee
Lee, Seung-Hwan
Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia
title Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia
title_full Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia
title_fullStr Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia
title_full_unstemmed Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia
title_short Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia
title_sort empathy and social attribution skills moderate the relationship between temporal lobe volume and facial expression recognition ability in schizophrenia
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7383013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32702215
http://dx.doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2020.18.3.362
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