Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on May 20, 2008
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(4):670-672; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbn045
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Social Cognition in Schizophrenia
2 University of California, Los Angeles, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 300 Medical Plaza, Room 2263, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6968
3 Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Program, University of Pennsylvania, Gates Pavilion 10th floor, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: mgreen{at}ucla.edu.
Social cognition in schizophrenia is a rapidly emerging area of study. Because the number and diversity of studies in this area have increased, efforts have been made to better define terms and provide organizing frameworks. A key challenge confronting the study of social cognition in schizophrenia is building bridges between clinical scientists and social neuroscientists. The articles in this theme summarize data-based studies that have attempted to build or strengthen such bridges to better understand the neural bases of social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.
Keywords: social cognition / schizophrenia / social neuroscience