The Association Between Emotion Recognition, Affective Empathy, and Structural Connectivity in Schizophrenia Patients

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emotion processing deficits often occur in patients with schizophrenia. We investigate whether patients and controls differ in the association between facial emotion recognition and experience of affective empathy and whether performance on these emotion processing domains differently relates to white matter connectivity.

Materials and Methods

Forty-seven patients with schizophrenia and 47 controls performed an emotion recognition and affective empathy task. T1-weighted and diffusion-tensor images (DTI) of the brain were acquired. Using Tracula 5.3, ten fibers were reconstructed and fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD) were extracted. Groups were compared on task performance, white matter measu

SUBMITTER: Koevoets M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240782 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature