Neural correlates of out-group bias predict social impairment in patients with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social impairments are a hallmark feature of schizophrenia and are a key predictor of functional disability. Deficits in social information processing likely underlie social impairment; however, this relationship is understudied. We previously demonstrated that patients with schizophrenia fail to habituate to neutral faces, providing evidence for an alteration in basic social information processing. It remains unknown whether patients with schizophrenia also show deficits in processing of more complex social information. Out-group bias provides an excellent opportunity to test complex social information processing because the bias requires basic face processing skills, the ability to discriminate between groups, as well as the ability to categorize oneself into a salient

SUBMITTER: Blackford JU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4512167 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature