The Relationship between Negative Symptoms and Both Emotion Management and Non-social Cognition in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
Caitlin O B YollandSean P CarruthersWei Lin TohErica NeillPhilip J SumnerElizabeth H X ThomasEric Josiah TanCaroline T GurvichAndrea PhillipouTamsyn E Van RheenenSusan L RossellPublished in: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS (2020)
The present study identified associations between negative symptoms and emotion management within social cognition, but no domains of non-social cognition. This relationship may be specific to motivation, anhedonia and apathy, but not expressive deficits. This suggests that targeted interventions for social cognition may also result in parallel improvement in some specific negative symptoms.