Impaired theory of mind in first-episode schizophrenia: comparison with community, university and depressed controls

Systematic review of the neural basis of social cognition in patients with mood disorders

“…231 A small number of studies conducted in actively depressed patients with MDD suggest that these patients show impairments on ToM tasks that involve decoding mental states from available information, such as facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures and reasoning [232][233][234] (for contradictory findings, see Wolkenstein and colleagues 235 ) and tasks that involve reasoning about mental states by combining contextual information and prior knowledge about an individual or situation to understand behaviour 236 (for contradictory results in patients with varying levels of symptom severity, see Wilbertz and colleagues 163 ). Similar findings have been reported for patients with active and subsyndromal symptoms of bipolar disorder.…”

Social cognition in major depressive disorder: A new paradigm?

“…Several behavioral works show that MDD patients present ToM deficits [107][108][109][110][111][112][113]. These deficits can persist after depressive symptom remission and their intensity correlates with the risk of recurrence [114,115].…”

Soziophysiologie: Grundlegende Prozesse der Emphathiefähigkeit

“…Auf allen Ebenen sozialkognitiver Verarbeitung sind Einschränkungen zu -erkennung, der TOM, der sozialen Kontextverarbeitung und der sozialen Attribution [7,8,30,69,80]. Eine Besonderheit schizophrener Erkrankungen ist das Phänomen einer subtil veränderten sozialen Rapports bereits in einem sehr frühen Stadium der Erkrankung [9,55] [82]. Dies spricht für eine intakte Reizaufnahme über das Spiegelneuronensystem bei reduzierter motorischer Reaktion.…”