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How to choose the right assessment of social cognition for your study
The Emotion Recognition Task (ERT) and Emotion Bias Task (EBT) both assess social cognition, but which is more appropriate for different participant groups?
What is the value of objectively measuring emotional bias?
A negative, perceptual bias is associated with the onset and maintenance of mood disorders, and is therefore a therapeutic avenue of interest. Here we will discuss the launch of an objective assessment of emotional bias as a potential biomarker of mood.
Using affective cognition to enhance precision psychiatry
Precision psychiatry is a promising new approach that seeks to improve outcomes in highly heterogeneous clinical populations.
Affective face processing in schizophrenia: disorder-specific or transdiagnostic deficit?
Our recent review of meta-analyses concluded that facial emotion recognition deficits are common across a range of psychiatric, neurological and developmental disorders.
Our Senior Scientist, Dr Jack Cotter, presented the latest findings at Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) conference.
Social cognition: an important but overlooked aspect of cognitive function
Social cognitive deficits have traditionally been linked with autism spectrum conditions. However, a recent paper from Cambridge Cognition suggests that deficits in social cognition are exhibited across a range of neurological, psychiatric and developmental disorders.
