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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Accurately Identifying Anger: A Treatment Target for Schizophrenia

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Clinical Science

  • Samantha Schoeneman
    Rush University Medical Center
  • Abhishek Saxena
    University of Rochester
  • Erin Guty
    Pennsylvania State University
  • David Dodell-Feder
    Harvard University
  • Mor Nahum
    Hebrew University
  • Christine Hooker
    Rush University Medical Center

Abstract

This randomized control pilot study in healthy adults evaluated whether the targeted social cognitive training program SocialVille can improve facial emotion recognition. We found that SocialVille has the potential to treat deficient anger recognition in schizophrenia patients, a deficit predictive of a poor prognosis that antipsychotics currently cannot treat.

Social Cognition

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