Potential therapeutic avenues to tackle social cognition problems in schizophrenia

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-81

  Brown, Elliot C ^a,b   Tas, Cumhur ^a,b   Brüne, Martin ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion processing; Learning; Metacognition; Motivation; Schizophrenia; Social cognition; Social interaction; Social neuroscience; Theory of mind; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTIONAL BIAS; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METACOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORY OF MIND; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOPATHY;

HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84858951713     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.11.183     Document Type: Review

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