Improving emotion recognition in schizophrenia with "VOICES": An on-line prosodic self-training.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Emotion recognition (ER) deficits have been extensively demonstrated in schizophrenia. These deficiencies are not only restricted to facial emotion recognition but also include emotional prosody (tone of the voice) recognition deficits. They have been significantly associated with symptom severity and poor social functioning. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy, in real clinical conditions, of an online self-training prosodic game included in the Social Cognition rehabilitation program e-Motional Training. METHOD:A randomized, single-blind multicenter clinical trial was conducted with 50 outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. The control group was treated with Treatment-as-usual (TAU), based on drug therapy, case management and individual and gr

SUBMITTER: Lado-Codesido M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347191 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature