The Functional Significance of Affect Recognition, Neurocognition, and Clinical Symptoms in Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The complex relationship and exact extent of the contribution of plausible indictors to social functional outcome in schizophrenia remain unclear. The present study aimed to explore the functional significance of clinical symptoms, neurocognition, and affect recognition simultaneously in schizophrenia.

Methods

The clinical symptoms, basic neurocognition, facial emotion recognition, and social functioning of 154 subjects, including 74 with schizophrenia and 80 nonclinical comparisons, were assessed.

Results

We observed that various subdomains of social functioning were extensively related to general intelligence, basic neurocognition, facial emotion recognition, and clinical symptoms, with different association patterns. Multivariate regression analyses reve

SUBMITTER: Huang CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5242509 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature