Pinkham, Amy E.
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Amy Pinkham is a Professor and Director of the Schizophrenia and Social Cognition Lab. Dr. Pinkham's research "uses functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral techniques to examine how the human brain processes social information, how these neural systems may be disturbed in schizophrenia and related disorders, and the behavioral consequences of these impairments."
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Implicit and Explicit Bodily Emotions and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia
(Elsevier Science BV, 2019-02-12)No abstract available. From the text: "The aim of the present study is to analyze whether explicit and implicit recognition of bodily emotions predicts interpersonal functioning in patients with schizophrenia. The secondary ... -
Autism Symptoms, Depression, and Active Social Avoidance in Schizophrenia: Association with Self-Reports and Informant Assessments of Everyday Functioning
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019-05-09)Autistic traits are a feature of schizophrenia and has been found to impair social functioning and social cognition. Other influences on social outcomes in schizophrenia include depression and social avoidance. However, ... -
Which Levels of Cognitive Impairments and Negative Symptoms Are Related to Functional Deficits in Schizophrenia?
Background: Negative symptoms and cognitive impairments predict difficulties in aspects of everyday functioning in schizophrenia, with little research to date attempting to determine if there are threshold levels of ... -
Social Cognitive Impairments in Individuals with Schizophrenia Vary in Severity
Social cognitive deficits are a hallmark feature of schizophrenia and have been confirmed by several meta-analyses; however, the uniformity of these impairments across individuals remains unknown. The present study evaluated ... -
Increased Social Cognitive Bias in Subclinical Paranoia
This article has no abstract. Following is the first paragraph: "Recent initiatives have shifted the emphasis from studying pathological illnesses as separate diagnostic entities to examining specific symptoms on a continuum ... -
Increased Social Cognitive Bias in Subclinical Paranoia
Background: Recent analyses from the SCOPE study have revealed significant relationships between measures of social cognitive biases and specific symptoms, such as paranoia, in individuals with schizophrenia (Buck et al, ... -
Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation: Results of the Final Validation Study
Social cognition is increasingly recognized as an important treatment target in schizophrenia; however, the dearth of well- validated measures that are suitable for use in clinical trials remains a significant limitation. ... -
Brief Report: Adults with Autism Are Less Accurate at Predicting How Their Personality Traits Are Evaluated by Unfamiliar Observers
Social cognitive impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are well-documented, yet little research has examined whether ASD is also characterized by difficulties in meta-perception, or the ability to gauge how one is ... -
Paranoid Individual with Schizophrenia Show Greater Social Cognitive Bias and Worse Social Functioning than Non-Paranoid Individuals with Schizophrenia
Paranoia is a common symptom of schizophrenia that may be related to how individuals process and respond to social stimuli. Previous investigations support a link between increased paranoia and greater social cognitive ...
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