International perspective on social cognition in schizophrenia: current stage and the next steps.

ABSTRACT: In the last decades, research from cognitive science, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and social neuroscience has provided mounting evidence that several social cognitive abilities are impaired in people with schizophrenia and contribute to functional difficulties and poor clinical outcomes. Social dysfunction is a hallmark of the illness, and yet, social cognition is seldom assessed in clinical practice or targeted for treatment. In this article, 17 international experts, from three different continents and six countries with expertise in social cognition and social neuroscience in schizophrenia, convened several meetings to provide clinicians with a summary of the most recent international research on social cognition evaluation and treatment in schizophrenia, and to lay out primary rec

SUBMITTER: Corbera S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795453 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature