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The Association Between Emotion Recognition, Affective Empathy, and Structural Connectivity in Schizophrenia Patients

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العنوان: The Association Between Emotion Recognition, Affective Empathy, and Structural Connectivity in Schizophrenia Patients
المؤلفون: Martijn G. J. C. Koevoets, Merel Prikken, Doesjka A. Hagenaar, René S. Kahn, Neeltje E. M. van Haren
المصدر: Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 13 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Psychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: schizophrenia, emotion recognition, affective empathy, structural connectivity, MRI, Psychiatry, RC435-571
الوصف: IntroductionEmotion processing deficits often occur in patients with schizophrenia. We investigate whether patients and controls differ in the association between facial emotion recognition and experience of affective empathy and whether performance on these emotion processing domains differently relates to white matter connectivity.Materials and MethodsForty-seven patients with schizophrenia and 47 controls performed an emotion recognition and affective empathy task. T1-weighted and diffusion-tensor images (DTI) of the brain were acquired. Using Tracula 5.3, ten fibers were reconstructed and fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD) were extracted. Groups were compared on task performance, white matter measures and their interactions using ANCOVAs. Correction for multiple comparisons was applied.ResultsPatients scored lower on emotion recognition (p = 0.037) and reported higher levels of affective empathy (p < 0.001) than controls. Patients with poor emotion recognition (PT-low) experienced stronger affective empathy than patients with similar emotion recognition performance as controls (PT-normal; p = 0.011), who in turn reported stronger affective empathy than controls (p = 0.043). We found a significant interaction between emotion recognition, affective empathy and anterior thalamic radiation AD (p = 0.017, d = 0.43). Post hoc analyses revealed that the correlation between AD and empathy differed significantly between all groups (empathy/AD in PT-low < empathy/AD in PT-normal < empathy/AD in controls).DiscussionIn patients with poor emotion recognition, the negative association between anterior thalamic radiation AD and affective empathy was stronger than in patients with normal emotion recognition capacity. Possibly, axonal damage in fronto-thalamic structural connections, as part of a larger frontotemporal network, underlies the association between poor emotion recognition and higher levels of affective empathy in schizophrenia patients.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1664-0640
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.910985/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-0640
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.910985
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/53a13148c5804ab2a786b6b32d023805
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.53a13148c5804ab2a786b6b32d023805
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:16640640
DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.910985